Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 4203 authors
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You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
— Charles F. Haanel
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You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key…
— Jim Rohn
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For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second…
— Meg Whitman
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Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
— Holly Lisle
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After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely…
— Antonio Gramsci
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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.
— Brian De Palma
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Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
— Len Deighton
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of…
— Margery Allingham
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I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've…
— Patricia Highsmith
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The first is wake up in the morning and be grateful you are here, alive and healthy. And the second is: Give.
— Gisele Bundchen
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I love every second of being a mom.
— Lily Aldridge
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This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life — wait a second — you shouldn't model your life about what you think that…
— Fiona Apple
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This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do…
— Emile M. Cioran
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I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
— Muriel Spark
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So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as…
— Liz Phair
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You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.
— BoA
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There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the…
— Robert E. Lee
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It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working…
— J D Salinger
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I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead…
— Tony Blair
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