Second Hand Quotes

101 quotes by 84 authors

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them.… — Terry Pratchett
We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle.… — J. Oswald Sanders
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication] — Agatha Christie
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. — Charles Dickens
Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It… — Stephenie Meyer
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand… — Kurt Vonnegut
When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself… — E. M. Forster
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows… — Ayn Rand
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see Iâ€™m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who… — Leonard Cohen
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very… — Aldous Huxley
On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One blood in… — Patrick Rothfuss
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast… — Virginia Woolf
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter… — Mark Twain
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where… — William Hazlitt
I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer… — Roz Savage
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious.… — Chuck Palahniuk
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand. — P.J. O'Rourke

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