Top 100 One Second Quotes
#1. What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
Alfred North Whitehead
#2. He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except ... just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.
Lisa Kleypas
#3. One second I was cleaning up dinner and the next I was being devoured like I was dessert.
Kelly Oram
#4. But there really was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long or even one minute or one hour. Those were artificial divisions, imposed by humankind. Time was infinite. And it was time to love.
Mary Balogh
#5. A few years ago, before I stopped drinking, I was feeling very sorry for myself and very drunk, and I Googled 'Moby Sucks'. In less than one second something like 20 million responses came up ... yeah, there has been a lot of loathing directed towards me, and it used to drive me crazy.
Moby
#6. When i was younger, one piece of advice from a mentor stuck with me for years....
"When shaking someones hand make sure its strong and confident. For 1st impressions last and your character is automatically assumed in that one second of greeting...
Daleen Van Tonder
#7. And that was when Ryker collapsed. One second he was standing, the next second his ass was to the floor, his knees bent to the ceiling, his forearms to his knees and his head was bowed between his legs. Merry, Cal and Layne all looked down at a big man brought low by a miracle.
Kristen Ashley
#8. I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
Najib Mikati
#9. My mom always said if you have a gift, it is absolutely not about you. So I don't get twisted and think for one second it's all about me.
Tessanne Chin
#10. If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.
Michelle Wie
#11. Those Russkies won't put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well as the next man but nobody has the right to live here and do nothing but run us down.
Fannie Flagg
#12. Even Mom doesn't understand how being in front of a camera all the time twists and warps you. How one second it makes you feel unbelievably alive and the next publicly strips you down until all that's left is one big question mark.
Heather Demetrios
#13. Sometimes you just know. And so you rearrange your life around what you glimpsed through a little window that opened for one second to show you a glimpse of something you might never get to see again. Even so, you know you will never forget the view.
Elisabeth Egan
#14. Bliss, wait one second."
I took my time packing up my stuff, waiting for everyone else to leave the computer lab.
When we were alone I asked, "What's up?"
He smiled, "Nothing."
Then he pressed me into the computer table behind me and kissed me.
Cora Carmack
#15. What beauty would we see around us, if for just one second we could acknowledge the beauty that lies within ourselves?
Monica Dumont
#16. One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.
Kelley Armstrong
#17. If I'd just listened - just taken one second to listen - it wouldn't have happened
Cassandra Clare
#18. One second she's all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.
Carrie Butler
#19. Standing there by that Harvard window, I silently vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any
wings I wore had been put on by the religion of Islam. That fact I never have forgotten ... not for
one second.
Malcolm X
#20. Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.
Nora Ephron
#21. The only difference between a winner and a loser is that one second when the winner decided not to give up.
Vikrmn
#22. I guess I just couldn't see standing there
alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being
one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
S.E. Hinton
#23. Don't think for one second the change of location will bring you success. If you have the same mentality, you will have the same results.
Behdad Sami
#24. When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.
Kimi Raikkonen
#25. When I look at her now, I think, for just one second, that God doesn't hate me so much after all.
Katja Millay
#26. I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.
Brian Eno
#27. Perhaps the most important reason of all for taking action now is that time is finite. No matter how proficient you are, you can only accomplish so much in a lifetime. Every second that's wasted reduces the totality of what you can accomplish by one second
Robert Ringer
#28. had become a nightmare to survive one second at a time.
Denise Moncrief
#29. Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.
Janet Gurtler
#30. One second I'll be listening to country, and then the next I'll be listening to rock and then R&B. It's ridiculous. I'm all over the place with my music.
Taylor Lautner
#31. My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They went from hypothetical, empty memories to blurry, unformed shapes in my head. Dead one second, alive the next.
Kind of like me.
Megan Miranda
#32. Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.
Abraham Ruiz
#33. You can't smile and act like you love me one second then destroy my world the very next.
J.M. Darhower
#34. Father, I'd rather die at your hands than at Liam's ... or worse, Mel's. Give me one second to tell you and then I will run faster than Forrest Gump.
J.J. McAvoy
#35. That's the thing with you people. You think you could love someone one second and hate them the next. Well, you can't.
Diyar Harraz
#36. If I had imagined for one second that I could believe in love, I saw now that I'd been deluding myself. Because it all ends up the same, whether you love them or not.
Everyone betrays you, in the end.
Ali Cronin
#37. I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.
Greg Maddux
#38. You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.
Ronald Reagan
#40. I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves ... my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).
Annie Dillard
#41. We didn't waste one second of that day. We talked about the past. We talked about the future. And we danced. And we sang. And we toasted absent friends, as the stars shone through the night sky, like Amber's last gift.
Matthew Crow
#42. I still can't believe that people can exist and then not exist, from one second to the next. And when they're gone, all they are is an accumulation of things. They're reduced to whatever possessions they leave behind.
Anna Jarzab
#43. Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?
Michael J. Fox
#44. Oh, Mama," I said. "What if I don't live that long?" My mother didn't hesitate one second. "By hook or by crook, you will. Having children only increases your grip on the world. It's like reading a thriller. You can't put it down because you have to know how the story turns out.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#45. I stay where I am for just one second longer, for one second reveling in the feeling of being held, touched with tenderness, even if it isn't real.
Cindy C. Bennett
#46. I am mad at you, Holder," I say with an unsteady, but sure voice. "But no matter how mad I've been, I never for one second stopped wanting you here with me.
Colleen Hoover
#47. The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.
Dick Ebersol
#48. I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.
Lois Lowry
#49. If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.
Mariska Hargitay
#50. I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good ... I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.
Gabi Hollows
#51. He's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the next, he'd be looking at you like he had no idea who you were.
Gillian Flynn
#52. One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken." Margot
Jenny Han
#53. One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#54. Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
Hal Lindsey
#55. He looks at me again and the flames vanish and the knife is gone and his voice goes light and breezy and all coffee-shop conversational, as if he wasn't just one second ago impaling me with fiery eyes and discussing the dark fate of my best friend and the souls of all my classmates.
Michelle Knudsen
#56. Have you never seen something so mad, so extraordinary, that just for one second you think that there might be more out there?
Catherine Tregenna
#57. I don't cry to get my way," I defended my emotional inabilities, and then began wiping away the tears. "It's just this is really hard."
"Annalisa, if I thought for one second that the tears were fake, you wouldn't sway me. But, I've never seen so many honest tears in my life.
Lindsay Delagair
#58. It might take only one second to hurt the one
you love but it takes forever to heal.
Danka V.
#59. It could be argued that death is inherently absurd, and that grinning is not necessarily an inappropriate response. I mean absurd in the sense of ridiculous, unreasonable. One second a person is there, the next they're not.
Alison Bechdel
#60. Can I have a pony?"
Oh, boy.
I think about it for exactly one second.
"Absolutely."
She squeezes me tighter and squeals.
"Only ... don't tell mommy until after it's delivered, okay?
Emma Chase
#62. I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#63. A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
Yann Martel
#64. stability is like a lover with a sweet mouth upon your body one second; the next you are a tremor lying on the floor covered in rubble and old currency waiting for its return.
Warsan Shire
#65. I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
Ayrton Senna
#66. For many years eagerly thought by your enemy to destroying your life, it's all one second of mastery for you to save your life from his deadly plans, for you to survive.
Auliq Ice
#67. My heart hurt to see her in pain and, for one second, i shut down all emotion. One day, she'd figure out she was too good for a loser like me and when she left, i didn't know how i'd deal with the pain. Hell, she was worth it. I enfolded her into my body once more, kissing the side of her neck.
Katie McGarry
#68. And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.
Sarah Dessen
#69. If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.
R.C. Sproul
#70. Divine had meant to try to shut her mind off from his sooner than she had, but had got wrapped up in the passion she'd so carefully stirred to life in them both and left it just that one second or two too long. Instead of remaining conscious as she'd hoped, she'd ended up passing out with him.
Lynsay Sands
#71. You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.
Helen Fisher
#72. Every day from the crack of dawn," he said- and i completed the rest, "until we can't keep our eyes open one second longer
James Patterson
#73. Life isn't but a feather floating in the wind. One second it's in your grasp, next second, it's floating high, wondering what is to come.
William Shakespeare
#74. Why can't life be like this? Human beings in all their magnificence. Working to find that moment of pride. That one second of excellence at being alive...The feeling of belonging not just to oneself but to the entire universe.
Ron Jones
#75. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It's coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don't even know where they are.
Paul Auster
#76. Calder, do you like me? And then I laughed, breaking the spell. Her eyes flashed open and blood flooded her cheeks. She pushed off, but I reached out and pulled her toward me again. That one second of physical separation was too painful a void.
Anne Greenwood Brown
#77. There's never a right time for you to fall. It's why they call it falling. It's an accident. In one second. Just pray that wherever you land, you're not there alone.
Katy Evans
#78. The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.
David J. C. MacKay
#79. One second. A snapshot of fear and sweat and blood.
Kat Zhang
#80. Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second.
Lewis Carroll
#81. Man, one second you're sharing your air with a dude, and the next second he's trying to get you punched in the face.
Shannon Messenger
#82. Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#83. Well, history isn't ever going to end, happily or unhappily. And history is ending every second - happily for some of us, unhappily for others, happily one second, unhappily the next. History is always ending and always not ending, and both ways there is nothing to wait for
Tom Robbins
#84. Have you been to a place where no one have been before? I give you the answer: Yes! Everywhere changes from one second to another and wherever you go, you will always be the first visitor!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. You're still riding home with me right? He asks Courtney watching me at the corner of his eye. What's with this guy? he looks like he's about one second from taking a baseballbat to my knees. Or wanting to. I wonder if this is how serial killers start out. Wasn't Unabomber really goos at math?
Lauren Barnholdt
#86. ...I'm hanging onto my sanity by a thread. I'll have you up against this tree and be inside you in about one second.
Zoe Forward
#87. I haven't seen one second of any episode of 'Lost,' ever.
Brooke Elliott
#88. I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
Dabney Coleman
#89. I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.
Troy Polamalu
#90. Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#91. You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.
Christian Boltanski
#92. I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.
Jack Nicholson
#93. We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#94. How many color patterns can your severed arm produce in one second?
Wendy Williams
#96. The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
Chuck Palahniuk
#97. Marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not look at her. He felt as though the sun were coming near him.
Leo Tolstoy
#98. It is strange how fragile this man-creature is ... in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
Nelson Algren
#99. You've gotta believe that the split second that changed your life - the brief moment that took your leg and bruised your melon - can't be the defining moment of your life. It was just an instant, a flash. Just one second out of millions of seconds. It doesn't get to own you.
Jennifer Handford
#100. I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not.
Clive Sinclair
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