Second Quotes - page 5

The past beats inside me like a second heart. (John Banville)
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it. View quote
Ray Kroc
Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. View quote
Jules Verne
Newspapers are the second hand of history. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. View quote
William Butler Yeats
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. View quote
Doris Lessing
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first. View quote
Jonathan Swift
about Theseus, began the saying He is a second Hercules. View quote
Plutarch
Custom is almost second nature. View quote
Plutarch
The old are in a second childhood. View quote
Aristophanes
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. (Keanu Reeves)
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. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. View quote
George Steiner
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. View quote
Confucius
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. View quote
Euripides
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. View quote
Patrick Murray
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. View quote
Paul Theroux
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all. View quote
James Brown
People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. View quote
Katharine Whitehorn
To their own second thoughts. (Matthew Henry)
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life third, because although they took my all, it was not much and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. View quote
Matthew Henry
Item, I give unto my wife my second best bed, with the furniture. View quote
William Shakespeare
Second to the right and then straight on till morning. View quote
J. M. Barrie
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt