Quotes of: Second Keyword

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel

Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.

Dead Fire

Danny: You can be as morally righteous as you want—in a vacuum—but throw in a second entity and you gotta start acting in response to the other.

Danny the Last Earth Man

I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn't stop it.

In Dreams

It was an intensely lonely moment, like all of eighth grade condensed into one claustrophobic second.

Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets

There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired.

Darkness Left Undone

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Divergent

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Ever After

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

Effective Java

4.04 APOLOGY A second insult be just a stiff apology, As the first be when hurt was the party; Damages for aggrieved no medicine be, But healing from hurt - the desire only. [38] - 4

Eddies of Life

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

Emma

Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

Envy

Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

You really have to let me fight my own battles. You can't constantly second-guess me and try to protect me. It's stifling.

Fifty Shades Darker

My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.

Fall on Your Knees

From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

Flood

Sometimes people did this, closed their eyes for a few seconds and imagined it gave them insights into what it was like to be her. Only, at the end, they could still open their eyes and see.

Girl, Stolen

How could Mark be halfway across the world when she would have sworn he'd been in this room with her only seconds ago?

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