Second Quotes

6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors

I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage… — Harvey Fierstein
There are no second acts in American lives. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown. — Jane Fonda
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first… — Margot Fonteyn
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. — Harrison Ford
The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus. — Luke Ford
No one remembers who came in second. — Walter Hagen
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost… — Larry Hagman
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at… — Alexander Haig
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted… — Mohsin Hamid
A feature film is twenty-four lies per second. — Michael Haneke
I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff,… — Kathleen Hanna
I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly. — Stephen Harper
The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them. — George Harrison
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand… — Ben Hecht
When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best. — Martin Heinrich
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool. — Levon Helm
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent… — Ernest Hemingway
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others… — Audrey Hepburn
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. — David Hockney
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill… — Tom Hodgkinson
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact… — Hans Hofmann
I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand. — Francois Hollande

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