Second Quotes

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.

In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.