Second Quotes - page 8

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. (Roger von Oech)
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. View quote
Roy H. Williams
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. View quote
Sara Paretsky
My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities. View quote
Sargent Shriver
You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance. View quote
Tracey Gold
By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. View quote
Taylor Dane
And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite. View quote
Umberto Guidoni
Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy. View quote
Vanessa Carlton
Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood. View quote
Vic Morrow
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative - full realization for all individuals. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second, Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea - by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
I could dance till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home. View quote
Groucho Marx
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose. View quote
Ayrton Senna
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. View quote
Candice Bergen
...Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. View quote
Lena Horne
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. View quote
Israel Zangwill
The Russians are liars – you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore. View quote
John Adams
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. (Martin Van Buren)
Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream. View quote
Jean Piaget
When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime-for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold. View quote
Marquis de Sade