Second Quotes - page 4

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. (K. Eric Drexler)
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. View quote
Lisa See
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
I don't play in any tournaments to come second best. View quote
Andy Murray
I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. View quote
Jean Kerr
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. View quote
Paulo Coelho
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you. View quote
Paulo Coelho
There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. (Cicero)
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. View quote
Robert Heller
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. View quote
Robert Frost
The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second. View quote
Brian De Palma
For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. View quote
Luise Rainer
A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. View quote
Martin Feldstein
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. View quote
Donald Trump
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. View quote
Woody Allen
The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty. (Chuck Palahniuk)
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life. View quote
P. D. James
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. View quote
Herb Caen