Second Quotes

6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive. — Viswanathan Anand
You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy,… — Helen Fisher
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active… — Geoff Mulgan
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your… — Douglas Rushkoff
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes… — Douglas Rushkoff
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. — Colm Toibin
Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for… — Dean Koontz
Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. — James M. Barrie
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. — Jeffrey Eugenides
My brain? That's my second favorite organ. — Woody Allen
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will… — Kurt Vonnegut
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — Charlotte Bronte
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves… — Mark Twain
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can… — P.D. James
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. — Nikos Kazantzakis
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love… — Joan Didion
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a… — Helen Hunt Jackson
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot… — Hugh Laurie
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the… — Anais Nin
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the… — Anne Lamott
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. — Haruki Murakami

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