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Quotes About Second

The dreaming attention-the second attention that is like a sewage or diarrhea can move to other people
~ Unknown
It throbs, the pain coming in staggering pulses, like a second, ragged heartbeat. I cannot bring myself to do more than lie there and wait for it to ebb.
~ Holly Black
keep this excitement for the letter which shall tell you of my first love. By the way, why always "first?" Is there, I wonder, a second love?
~ Honore de Balzac
I absolutely adore Vancouver, it's really been my second home.
~ Tamlyn Tomita
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
~ Steny Hoyer
Niang is very good in front of the goal, and he's also a quick learner. He is a versatile striker who can play both as a centre forward and as a second striker.
~ Massimiliano Allegri
They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.
~ Kevin Keegan
When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
~ Martin Heinrich
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
~ Pete Rose
My diaries are full of such missed opportunities, but the stock market is merciful—it always gives the nincompoop a second chance.
~ Peter Lynch
Waking up in full daylight, he dials 0 and asks if this is Saturday. A reproachful second goes by before the operator says, "This is Friday, sir.
~ David Gates
contrast between His first and second comings. He entered the world the first time in swaddling clothes; He will reign the second time in majestic purple. He came the first time as a weary traveler; He will return the second time as the untiring God. Once when He came, He had nowhere to lay His head;
~ David Jeremiah
To paraphrase Lorne Michaels (my countryman), it's the kind of place where they award Miss Canada to the runner-up, because the prettiest already gets to be prettiest.
~ David Rakoff
Colin Patterson's Evolution, second edition (make sure you get the second edition, it is much better than the first) (Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing, 1999).
~ Unknown
The [Second World] war may thus have acted as a forcing-bed, bringing to somewhat speedier development what was already securely rooted in the circumstances of our nation; and in this sense it may, perhaps, be said that: "The Scottish Renaissance was conceived in the First World War and sprang into lusty life in the Second World War.
~ Hugh MacDiarmid
It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them; the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations, and this speed is about a kilometre per second.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Are you baiting me for a reason?" he asked casually. "Is that what I'm doing?" He smiled at her innocent tone, not fooled for a second. "It's that, or you're flirting with me.
~ Jill Shalvis
Existence and proof are inseparables. You have to have the second to have the first. I
~ Jim Thompson
As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
~ George Takei
Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.
~ Chelsea Clinton
Because Japan is the world's second largest economy, this will not change in the foreseeable future. The sociology of Japan's economy has been set in an immutably conservative mold.
~ Unknown
But the most common negative emotion—and the second most common emotion of any kind—was regret. The only emotion mentioned more often than regret was love.
~ Daniel H. Pink
There was grace in second chances and foolishness in third.
~ Louise Penny
That's all a human life is, really—a do-over, a chance to get it right Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or you'll be brought back to try again.
~ Jodi Picoult