Quotes of: Second Keyword

Why are you looking at me? His eyes search mine for several long seconds before he holds contact and whispers, " Because I like your face.

Leo

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby,

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Ladies, a second piece of advice--do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.

Les Misérables

Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there’s never a guarantee that their second attempt will work out.

The Lover's Secret

Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second?

Let It Snow

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you’re his second choice, don’t make him your first.

Spilled Perfume: A Memoir

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

The Secret Mandarin

Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?

Snuff

Self-awareness of one’s faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

Seconds Before Sunrise

We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best.


Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.

Second Chance Summer

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

Symbols of Transformation

I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

Second Verse

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

A Pair of Blue Eyes

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

The People of Paper

...I'm hanging onto my sanity by a thread. I'll have you up against this tree and be inside you in about one second.

Protecting His Witch

...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...

Qualia