Second Quotes

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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,… — Yousuf Karsh
The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life… — Woody Allen
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. — Henry Fielding
Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd… — Mohsin Hamid
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each… — Carl Rogers
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy,… — Karl Marx
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. — Euripides
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second… — Thucydides
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved? — Ovid
Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position… — Lleyton Hewitt
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day — Thornton Wilder
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience… — Bridget Riley
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting… — Robert A. Heinlein
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance. — Paul Keres
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. — George Henry Lewes
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can… — Niccolo Machiavelli
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. — Edward Bellamy
Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me.… — Joe Frazier

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