Second Quotes
6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors
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If you are angry you will share anger, if you are greedy you will share greed, if you are full of lust you will share…
— Rajneesh
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It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.
— Henry Ford
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Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With…
— Art Linkletter
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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually…
— Don DeLillo
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I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for…
— William Faulkner
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
— Steven Wright
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Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
— Thomas Carlyle
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods.…
— Aristotle
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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
— Marc Riboud
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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second…
— Joan Miro
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of…
— John F. Kennedy
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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
— Twyla Tharp
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There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques;…
— Isadora Duncan
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
— Agnes de Mille
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Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to…
— Roger von Oech
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If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to…
— Charles Luckman
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Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we…
— Izaak Walton
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We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be…
— Ernest Holmes
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Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
— Anna Quindlen
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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through…
— Theodor Fontane
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