Second Quotes

6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors

Les vrais philosophes sont comme les eÂ leÂ phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a'Â Â terre que le premier ne soit… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The Russians are liars - you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world… — Harry S. Truman
Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia,… — John F. Kennedy
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which… — Marcus Aurelius
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be… — C.S. Lewis
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the… — C.S. Lewis
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Second thoughts, they say, are best. — John Dryden
Iâ€™ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female bodyâ€”and figuring out how to fix… — Christiane Northrup
A person dies every second, but thereâ€™s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind. — Craig Stone
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws… — Bill Vaughan
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies… — Bill Vaughan
Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any… — Bill Vaughan
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the… — Evelyn Waugh
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the… — George Steiner
There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man… — Gerald Stanley Lee
I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression… — John Kapelos

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