Top 100 Sayings About The Second Time
#1. A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.
Pascal Mercier
#2. He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Herb Caen
#4. Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true.
Cheryl Strayed
#5. A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
Bertolt Brecht
#6. My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time ... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
Neville Chamberlain
#7. [B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.
William Faulkner
#8. The first time [Christ] came to slay sin in men. The second time He will come to slay men in sin.
Arthur W. Pink
#9. If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'
Terence McKenna
#10. You shouldn't be," Neal said. He lifted his chin and looked directly in her eyes. For the second time in five minutes. For the second time ever. "I'm here because I knew you'd be here. Because I hoped you would be.
Rainbow Rowell
#11. And we shall all carry on with our hearts set on the next best thing ... because we know how we have lived and understand what we have lost, and aren't willing to lose so much the second time through.
Isabel Aanya Leigh
#12. Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easier. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.
Frank Wead
#13. The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.
Bear Bryant
#14. Just so we're clear, I made love with you the first time because I wanted you more than I wanted breath. That's the same reason I did the second time, too. And the reason I'll do it every chance I get.
Cynthia Eden
#15. This was the second time the doctor had glimpsed something of Mersault's life; they had never confided in each other, Mersault conscious that Bernard was not a happy man, and Bernard rather baffled by Mersault's way of life. They parted without a word.
Albert Camus
#16. Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
Fleur East
#17. A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.
Brian Boitano
#18. I read Hesse's Steppenwolf thrice. The first time I was enchanted, the second time disappointed, the third time appalled.
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
#19. Isabel!'
The second time James called her name, realization came crashing down around her. She became acutely aware of their location, their situation, their *actions*, and she was overcome with an intense desire to escape back out the window to the roof. And to live there. For some time.
Sarah MacLean
#20. I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.
Delmore Schwartz
#21. Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.
Charles M. Schwab
#22. Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#23. On the 26th of December of last year, I took office for my second term as prime minister. And it is the first time ever since then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, during the occupation period, that a prime minister is taking this position for the second time with a number of years in between.
Shinzo Abe
#24. Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
Viktor E. Frankl
#25. My boy, this is the second time today that wisdom has spoken through your mouth ... !
Umberto Eco
#26. 'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.
Joss Whedon
#27. It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.
Craig Johnson
#28. For the second time today, someone had made him his favorite. But only one woman had gotten it right. Chicken-fried steak had been his favorite years ago. His tastes had changed.
Becky Wade
#29. The first time she slit a man's throat she felt sick to her stomach. The second time? Not so much.
Julie Garwood
#30. Her heart swelled with an emotion she had never felt before. Did she dare call it love? For the second time tonight, she suspected her heart had ignored all her warnings that falling in love with the forester was imprudent and impossible. Oh, dear heaven, what am I to do now? Her
Melanie Dickerson
#31. It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.
George A Tice
#32. I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals.
Jerry Falwell
#33. Love is lovelier The second time around.
Sammy Cahn
#34. I was doing curls. Hawk said, "How you and Susan doing?" "Love is lovelier," I said, "the second time around." "Worth the scramble," Hawk said.
Robert B. Parker
#35. The first time I read Gone with the Wind and Rhett walked out on Scarlett, I was fifteen and thought all that unrequited love was wildly romantic. The second time I read it, last summer, I thought she was silly and he was a selfish pig.
Jodi Picoult
#36. For the second time since meeting her, Echo looked as if I'd slapped her. Water pooled at the bottom edges of her eyes, her cheeks flushed red and she blinked rapidly. She'd succeeded in making me feel like a d*ck ... again.
Katie McGarry
#37. The first time I tongue you into coming, it's going to be an apology. The second time will be a reward for waiting." He fell to his knees and took his first intoxicating taste of Lucy. A growl worked its way free of his chest. "The third time is going to be because I fucking love to hear you scream.
Tessa Bailey
#38. I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings
#39. Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.
Annie Oakley
#40. It's a great feeling to know that I've played the best golf throughout the season of any of the guys for the second time in three years, it's really nice.
Rory McIlroy
#41. Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.
Julian Barnes
#42. You learn by mistakes. When you make those mistakes, you try not to make them the third time or the second time. You learn from them. Sometimes you learn the hard way. In football, if I held on to the ball too long, I got my butt kicked. You better make that decision quicker.
Ron Jaworski
#43. I sold my soul for the second time, cause' the man don't pay me.
Noel Gallagher
#44. And yet is not this transitoriness a reminder that challenges us to make the best possible use of each moment of our lives? It certainly is, and hence my imperative: Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. In
Viktor E. Frankl
#45. This is the second time she has turned me down, and with an apparent attempt to affront me. How does she manage to disappoint and intrigue simultaneously?
Noe
#46. It struck me that this was the second time in a couple of days that just yelling someone's name on the street could have spelled disaster. Then it struck me how wrong that was. To have to keep your life sectioned off like that. A signal that you'd fallen into a bad way to live.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#47. I began my first Cabinet meeting since the terrorist attacks. As I stepped into the room, the team broke out in sustained applause. I was surprised, and I choked up at their heartfelt support. The tears flowed for the second time in two days.
George W. Bush
#48. So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
Viktor E. Frankl
#49. Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain. (final lines)
George Pelecanos
#50. And for the second time that day he blesses the certainty of airports because he can always turn around and go someplace else.
Colson Whitehead
#51. The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the third time you meet them, you're old hats.
Kathryn Minshew
#52. The first time I saw him, everyone convinced me he was a hallucination caused by hypothermia. It was the second time that really messed me up.
Amy Patrick
#53. I closed my eyes as I put my hand in his. It was different the second time. Something clicked into place and I could almost sense a line of energy connecting us. I gasped as it tightened around my heart.
Aileen Erin
#54. For the second time in my life I walk away from Tucker not wondering if I'll ever see him again or wishing that I won't but wishing that when I do see him again he finally feels the same way that I do.
R.S. Burnett
#55. It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.)
Erich Kastner
#56. For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain.
Andrea Leadsom
#57. The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
Beatrice Wood
#58. If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments.
Tom Douglas
#59. I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.
Martin Amis
#60. The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.
Claudia Carroll
#61. He withdrew then, leaving [him] standing in the bloody morning sunlight, leaving him all alone at the heart of his fortress, for the second time, with nothing but a corpse for company.
Scott Lynch
#62. Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#63. Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.
Tucker Carlson
#64. Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
Douglas Adams
#65. The second time my world exploded, it was also
because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my
throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could
think about it, or stop it.
The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow?
And the word was: Yes.
Lauren Oliver
#66. I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.
Jon Stewart
#67. This was the second time James had told her to stay still and she had ignored his command.
Wesley Chu
#68. But he was not her Gabriel. Her Gabriel was dead. Gone. Leaving behind only vestiges of him in the body of a harsh and tortured clone. Gabriel had almost broken Julia's heart once. She was determined she would not let him break her heart for the second time.
Sylvain Reynard
#69. I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.
Don Shula
#71. Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking.
Nora Roberts
#72. I don't want to rush this," he whispered against her temple.
"Brody," she pleaded again. "Don't rush it the second time.
B. J. Daniels
#73. When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.
Guy Forget
#74. You've missed the bus. Are you calling in sick again? It's the second time in two years. The boss will frown upon it.
Benjamin R. Smith
#75. The first time he tapped her toe she thought it happened by accident. The second time, she kicked him.
Rogenna Brewer
#76. The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell.
Mark Twain
#77. Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#78. The second time around, I'll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn't care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.
Kevin Hart
#79. The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.
Eli Roth
#80. She searched for a possible escape route should she need one and spied the paper skeleton immediately behind her and shrieked for the second time. Who needed ghosts to haunt a house when one could form his own demons out of paper?
Charlie N. Holmberg
#81. I can't do this," she whispered.
He nodded. "I know."
"I want to but I--"
"It's okay." He brushed a kiss over her jaw and then was gone, proving for the second time now that he was, after all, her perfect Mr. All Wrong.
-Mallory and Ty
Jill Shalvis
#82. The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.
Amanda Schull
#83. Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.
Gil Kane
#84. That makes,what? The second time I've saved your life? Third, if you count that thing in Defense with the Vandy. Speaking of which, you're still thrusting your elbow too high on Skill Nine."
I swallowed twice before I was able to answer. "I'll work on that.
Rachel Hawkins
#85. The first time it happens, it can be explained. Accident. Experiment. Fluke. Everything was confusing. The lines blurred.
The second time is when it really happens for the first time.
Leah Raeder
#86. Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect.
Annie Oakley
#87. A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.
Bradford Cox
#88. I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
Bernard Malamud
#89. History: the first time a joke, the second time a badly translated joke.
Aleksandar Hemon
#90. 'Let's Get Harry' was where I met Bob Singer and worked with him for the first time, and then 'Reasonable Doubts' was the second time, and there was a thing after that called 'Charlie Grace' that was the third time. I liked working with Bob. A nice man and a good partner.
Mark Harmon
#91. I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. The second time is like, 'Okay, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.
Eva Mendes
#92. People go on about the first time being important, but it's the second time that really matters. Or the second person, anyway.
Nick Hornby
#93. She was engrossed in the first chapter of The Absentee when she heard her abigail clearing her throat for the second time.
Ruth Axtell
#94. I'd always known it, but having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.
R.K. Lilley
#95. The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
William Tyler
#96. This will mark the third time that an arrow has entered my chest. The first time brought me to Marianne Engel. The second time separated us.
The third time will reunite us.
Andrew Davidson
#97. This was the second time in less than forty-eight hours that a man stopped fondling me because his phone rang. And both times it was because someone had been killed. If I wasn't a well-adjusted, emotionally healthy person I might be bothered by this.
Janet Evanovich
#98. He'd seen that absent look from her dozens of times in London. She thought herself invisible, and was not. Not to him. This was the second time he'd mentioned marriage to her. The second time she heard nothing but his words.
Carolyn Jewel
#99. A good book is always better the second time around.
M.T. Acquaire
#100. The second time they made love was even better than the first. Their bodies fit perfectly together, the eager desperation of their first time segueing into a slower, more fully realized sensual dance.
Claire Thompson
