Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 4203 authors

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. — Ty Cobb
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep… — Jean Cocteau
I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. — Tori Amos
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery… — Criss Angel
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you… — Maya Angelou
I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy… — Odette Annable
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. — Piers Anthony
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest. — Jeffrey Archer
The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,… — C.S. Lewis
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. — Natalie Clifford Barney
In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a… — Jared Leto
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love… — Ellen Glasgow
[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the… — George Washington
Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace;… — William J. Clinton
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it,… — Charles Lamb
According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them… — Guy de Rothschild
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children… — Marshall Fritz
The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out… — Henry Russell Sanders

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