Second Quotes
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I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
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The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
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We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.
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If anything ever bothers us, we don't hold it in for one second, Cox continued.
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Under the second scenario, the effect on asset prices would be more protracted and would eventually be more differentiated by individual country circumstances.
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I never like to think that we can't win a game, but this was certainly our toughest challenge of the season. We match up well with them, but we needed to have a big second half -- and we did.
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We have a second home that also completely rolled into the back of the lot.
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We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us.
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In the second half we came out and played well offensively and defensively.
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The Babe is here. Who's coming in second?
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You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
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We did a better job of containing them in the second half. We made them shoot over us, and rebounded much better late in the game.
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I had the perfect number for my 4-iron second shot there. The 18th hole was a culmination of the hard work today. It was a real struggle, almost the exact opposite of last Sunday. ... I didn't want it to come down to the last hole, but I knew I could do something there, told myself I had the opportunity to do something great.
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The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.
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In the second half we upped the tempo, scored four and could have got more.
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Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. And shower. You reek like the dead." Which, coming from a vampire, was pretty rich.
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I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.
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I always talk about that big jump guys make between their first and second year, and Kenechi is right where he's supposed to be. In the second year, you understand what you are. A lot of guys have to refine themselves from college. I say the same things, and they say, 'Bake, why didn't you tell me that last year?' Now, they have a revelation.
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Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.
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Every second is of infinite value.
