Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Thucydides

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
Neil Patrick Harris

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Douglas William Jerrold

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
Tom Araya

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!
Robert Plant

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Simone Weil

I was always the second heavy.
Broderick Crawford

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
Sydney J. Harris

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
Carly Patterson

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
Richard J. Needham

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Bernard Berenson

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
Al Sharpton

First things first, second things never.
Shirley Conran

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.
Michael Novak

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.
Yo-Yo Ma