Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 4119 authors
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To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is…
— Jacob Needleman
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Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess…
— Rob Pike
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In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.
— Shakti Gawain
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There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.
— Smith Wigglesworth
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The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy. If I had but one bullet and I were…
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
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The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although I crumpled into…
— Brad Steiger
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Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies…
— Patricia Hampl
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In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the second, sometimes it's…
— Howard Ashman
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Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so…
— Frank Abagnale
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The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in…
— David Bellos
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All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).
— Johnny Vander Meer
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I’ll never second guess the things that I have done. I’ve got too much left to say and too much to become.
— Alex Gaskarth
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I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit…
— Elif Batuman
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The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites…
— Carl Sagan
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You don't need everyone to help you. You just need one touch of favor, and you will accomplish in a split second what could have…
— Joel Osteen
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It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
— Franz Kafka
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It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation…
— George Clooney
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Resolved: that every man should live to the glory of God. Resolved second: that whether others do this or not I will.
— Martin Luther
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