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Quotes About Second

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
~ Gerard de Nerval
Weren't you even curious what it was? There's a world of people and things, if you can manage to stop being a misanthrope for a second.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
His only mistake was not realizing there was a second car. There's always a second car. Except when there's not.
~ Brian Evenson
I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.
~ Al Leiter
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
~ Anna Jameson
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.
~ Justin Cronin
We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.
~ Charles Kelley
A Book of Prophecy opens the door. You need a second book to close it.
~ Steven Erikson
When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
~ Pat Summerall
In his "Canticle of the Creatures," Saint Francis says, "Blessed are those whom death will find in your most holy will, for the second death shall do them no harm.
~ Murray Bodo
Y si algún día decide usted ir a por él (porque lo que el destino no hace son visitas a domicilio), ya verá como le concederá una segunda oportunidad
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
~ Madeleine Stowe
Love at first sight can often be cured by taking a second look.
~ Kathryn Hughes
As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
~ George A. Romero
60,000 kilometres per second may be the practical (!) speed limit for space travel
~ Isaac Asimov
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
~ John Irving
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.
~ John F. Kennedy
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
~ Michael Ende
She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?" I said I thought the description fairly apt.
~ Susan Hubbard
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds
~ Susan Sontag
respect for the weak being, after intellectual courage, the second most attractive quality to this author)
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I could take you out in a second, she threatens. If he's concerned, he doesn't show it. I know. Somehow he also knows that she won't do it - that the first time was just a reflex. If she were to hurt him a second time, though, it would be a conscious act. It would be by choice.
~ Neal Shusterman
an empty desk in the second row, a memorial to the girl who used to sit there.
~ Tom Perrotta
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
~ Helen Rowland