Second Acts Quotes

#1. I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

Douglas Carter Beane

#2. When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Kiefer Sutherland

#3. Male novelists were granted a 'social tradition' in which to operate, Didion discovered" 'hard drinkers, bad livers, wives, wars, big fish, Africa, Paris, no second acts.

Tracy Daugherty

#4. There are no second acts in American lives.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. There are no second acts. But I still believe there are, from time to time.

Dominique Fabre

#6. Thus, as historian Soledad Loaeza has argued, the authoritarianism that distinguished Mexico during the second half of the 1960s should not be reduced to a series of "paranoid" acts of a single president (as Enrique Krauze and others have insisted).

Jaime Pensado

#7. If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

Honore De Balzac

#9. I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.

Graydon Carter

#10. I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it.

Mike Gordon

#11. Life's what you make it

Miley Cyrus

#12. We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

Martin Luther

#13. If you hit minorities they're gonna blame conservatives, Second Amendment, guns, and the terrorists won't get their due credit. So from now on acts of terror, only hit white people, because hate crimes against them are permitted, and the media will play it up.

Rush Limbaugh

#14. To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

Philip Schaff

#15. A good pitch is set up in three acts: The first act is the past, the second act is the present, and the third act is the future.

Austin Kleon

#16. Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

Billy Crudup

#17. By doing extraordinary things you are contributing to create a better world. Memorable should be the new usual ...

Juanmarketing

#18. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Alexander Pope

#19. Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

Laozi

#20. Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

Vazgen Sargsyan

#21. I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

Gerry Beckley

#22. Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.

George Bernard Shaw

#23. What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood that's been drawn.

H.N. Sieverding

#24. There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

James Baldwin

#25. As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.

Gabrielle Giffords

#26. If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

Ryan Reynolds