Second Quotes

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
William Temple

Humor, Good, Friends

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Natalie Imbruglia

Success, Start, Off

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.
Ville Valo

Cool, Same, Away

The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'
Guy Pearce

Good, Through, Law

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille

Creative, Accept, Demon

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
Tenzing Norgay

Live, Shame, Everest

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
Wynton Marsalis

Played, Violin, Beethoven

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Jeremy Paxman

May, Bird, Early

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Joe Henderson

Time, Against, Defeat

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.
Wilbur Smith

Life, Happiness, Money

The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.
Donna Shalala

Home, Mother, Help

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

War, End, Everything

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.
Lee Child

Books, Facts, Praise

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.
James Levine

Mean, Boss, Ask

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Gioachino Rossini

Time, Judge, After

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

Life, Two, Three

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
Martin Van Buren

Government, Thought, Excitement

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
E. Stanley Jones

Power, Character, Friend

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
Shelley Fabares

Living, Chance, Dying

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.
Robert Rodriguez

Children, Country, Find

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.
Graham Norton

Successful, Lovely, Show

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
Anne Wilson Schaef

Two, Another, Addiction

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.
Todd English

Life, Passion, Try

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.
Jewel

Music, Nature, Pretty

But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.
George Foreman

Time, College, Boxing

I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.
Robert Smith

Down, Worry, Anyway

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

Chance, Stage, Trained

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
H. Rap Brown

Bit, Pregnant, Class

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
Lester B. Pearson

War, Between, Danger

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.
Howard Dean

Two, After, Last

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