Second Quotes
6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors
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Alain Prost is in a commanding second position
— Murray Walker
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The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second
— Murray Walker
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Your game is only as good as your second serve
— John Newcombe
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Let's just say it and be done with it. Racing hurts. But here's another truth: having put in the effort to prepare for a race…
— Unknown Author
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Second place is the first loser.
— Dennis Anderson
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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
— Enid Bagnold
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In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs…
— Noel Coward
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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments;…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that befell the nations…
— Unknown Author
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Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?
— Caroline Lucas
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EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates…
— David Ogilvy
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Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
— William Lyon Phelps
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
— Democritus
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For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the…
— William Lipscomb
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The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our…
— Tryon Edwards
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Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
— Thomas Hobbes
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The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for…
— John of the Cross
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Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I…
— Clarence DeMar
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Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding…
— Robin Sharma
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Barcza is the most versatile player in the opening. He sometimes plays P-KKt3 on the first, sometimes on the second, sometimes on the third, and…
— Harry Golombek
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Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
— Anne Roiphe
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First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in…
— David Jeremiah
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Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough of the 20th…
— Benjamin Carson
Who Wrote These Second Quotes
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