Second Quotes

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Second place is just the first place loser.

The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

No one remembers who came in second.

The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

No, I did not offer to resign for a second.

I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.