Second Quotes - page 14

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything. (Anthony Trollope)
Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events-they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore. View quote
Terry Brooks
You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos. View quote
Douglas Coupland
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. View quote
Anacharsis
I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it. View quote
Laura Riding
What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be. View quote
Laura Riding
Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question? View quote
John Prescott
Think of it! A second Chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs. View quote
Michael Foot
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's? View quote
C. P. Snow
First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast - that means you're a professional. View quote
David Belle
There are some simple maxims [...] which I think might be commanded to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end. (Bertrand Russell)
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. View quote
Isaac Asimov
It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children.... View quote
Thomas Pynchon
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
For two hundred and fifty years, from the second half of the eighteenth Century on, Capitalism was the dominant social reality. For the last Hundred years, Marxism was the dominant social ideology. Both are rapidly being superseded by a new and very different society. The new society – and it is already here – is a post-capitalist society... The center of gravity in the post-capitalist society – its structure, its social and economic dynamics, its social classes, and its social problems – is very different from the one that dominated the last two hundred and fifty years. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
Celtic jerseys are not for second best, They don't shrink to fit inferior players. View quote
Jock Stein
Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west. View quote
Paul Bowles
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
I'm only one guy. I took Hedo [Türkoğlu] in the first game and Rashard [Lewis] hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't. (LeBron James)
God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you're praying for a million dollars and God said, "I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested," it's done, in Jesus' name. View quote
Pat Robertson
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! View quote
Billy Sunday
You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left. View quote
Yogi Berra
If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career. View quote
Richard Jeni