Second Quotes

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Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one. — Winston Churchill
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep — Garrison Keillor
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'… — Sam Keen
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that… — George Jean Nathan
There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man… — Charles Spurgeon
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ...… — Auberon Waugh
Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher… — Michele Bachmann
The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. — Benjamin Franklin
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that — Daniel Dennett
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second. — Benjamin Franklin
Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably… — Brian Barry
First reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, it's an illegal institution. The second reason, it's an immoral institution, because we have delivered to… — Ron Paul
Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities. — Michael Moritz
This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically.… — Deepak Chopra
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any… — Wendell Berry
Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever. — John Green
Reasons come first. Answers come second — Jim Rohn
As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as the country that… — Barack Obama
First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe… — Chris Huhne

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