Second Quotes

6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under… — Sarah Lacy
I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to… — Greg Mortenson
I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe,… — Peter Mullan
I'm a huge fan of John Hughes and can say that 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' is easily a top 3 favorite. I'm also a huge… — Ryan McPartlin
I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. — Tom Verlaine
For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities… — Vince Vaughn
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away… — John Ralston Saul
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my… — Robert Winston
Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their… — Deborah Tannen
Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these… — Lech Walesa
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward… — Paul Davies
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. — Bruce Cockburn
I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny… — Kyle Chandler
Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways… — Larry Speakes
Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second. — Rosa Luxemburg
The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and… — Jean-Claude Van Damme
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh
I usually have two feelings about service. The first is when I'm going to give service I feel as they I don't like doing this… — Randall Wright
It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business. — Robert Kennedy
Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser… — Stephen Levine
During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the… — Soren Kierkegaard
Nobody remembers who came in second. — Charles M. Schulz
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second,… — Michel de Certeau
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently… — Albert Einstein

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