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

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.
Marc Jacobs

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
Franz Kafka

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel Paige

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn

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

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
George MacDonald

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
Noel Coward

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
Knute Rockne

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell