Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James

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

Reform is China's second revolution.
Deng Xiaoping

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
George Harrison

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

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
Marilyn vos Savant

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Jean Piaget

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
Ken Kesey

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
Quentin Crisp

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
Mickey Rourke

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
Jeffrey Sachs

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Baltasar Gracian

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie

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

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson