Second Quotes

6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. — Lisa See
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it… — Ayn Rand
When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that… — Louis L'Amour
With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the… — Melissa Bank
If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second. — Neal A. Maxwell
The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though… — Rosalind Miles
But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused… — Thomas Pynchon
When you look at some faces, you can see the turbulence of the infinite beginning to gather to the surface. This moment can open in… — John O'Donohue
...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot… — Daniel Keyes
…the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard… — Benjamin Carson
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around. — Douglas Adams
Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late. — Ali Smith
Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand? — Steven Wright
I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away… — Gregory David Roberts
The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears… — Pope John XXIII
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my… — Thomas Jefferson
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it… — Sarah Vowell
You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else. — Leo Buscaglia
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and… — Madeleine L'Engle
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of… — J D Salinger
Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people… — Brandon Sanderson
Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop… — James Frey
There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just… — Paul Newman

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