Second Quotes

6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. — Herman Melville
Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. — Garrison Keillor
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge… — Alexander Pope
Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest. — Sylvester Stallone
It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first. — James A. Baldwin
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway… — Ted Allen
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In… — John Steinbeck
Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best. — Iris Murdoch
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. — John Green
The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control. — David Allen
In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man… — Thor Heyerdahl
I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer… — Fred Couples
If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second. — Joseph Heller
I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second. — Lee Iacocca
My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was… — Shelby Foote
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time… — Martin Amis
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This… — Josiah Royce
Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience. — Shelley Berman
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. — Gabriela Mistral
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a… — Louis Sullivan
All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing… — Jack Newfield
I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand… — Naguib Mahfouz
A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one… — Israel Shenker

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