Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 4203 authors

To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is… — Stephen Reinhardt
Spirit first, technique second. — Gichin Funakoshi
What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert… — Alexander Murdoch Mackay
Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all. — Evan Esar
It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second-… — Jeremy Rifkin
Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business. — Mark Russell
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had… — Ferdinand Columbus
There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with… — Howard Thurman
Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the… — William Shakespeare
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray. — Kabir
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor,… — Pope Francis
I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at… — Dale Carnegie
Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a… — Roddy Doyle
Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave… — Gary Smalley
God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!' — Thomas Brooks
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. — Benjamin Franklin
The most important thing in life is to love someone. The second most important thing in life is to have someone love you. The third… — Howie Schneider
You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future… — Dale Carnegie
The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and… — Benjamin Disraeli

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