Second The Quotes

#1. Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past effect in the future, but future and past are intertwined.

Alan Lightman

#2. Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.

Virgil Miller Newton

#3. There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first - the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison. In the second - the Huxleyan - culture becomes a burlesque. No

Neil Postman

#4. The first mile was always the hardest. By the second, the world grew fuzzy at the edges and only the muffled sound of feet on the trail and the blood pumping in my ears filtered through the haze.

Christina Lauren

#5. It's been five weeks since she walked out of my door. I started counting the second the door closed. I wonder when I'll stop.

Katja Millay

#6. When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game.

Luke Zeller

#7. I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

Jock Sturges

#8. Second, the Church itself is going to have to become more authentic morally, for the greatness of the Gospel is now seen to have become quite trivial and inconsequential in its life. If the Gospel means so little to the Church, if it changes so little, why then should unbelievers believe it?

David F. Wells

#9. Above the podium stood a decorated board showing the agenda for the day. The first item of business was the world urban crisis, the second - the ecology crisis, the third - the air pollution crisis, the fourth - the energy crisis, the fifth - the food crisis. Then adjournment.

Stanislaw Lem

#10. The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. 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

#12. Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit.

Samael Aun Weor

#13. Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.

Rachel Sklar

#14. The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#15. Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

Thomas E. Mann

#16. He dipped her low and kissed her fiercely, as if he were angry, and each time his lips left hers, even just for half a second, the most parching thirst ran through her, making her cry out.

Lauren Kate

#17. Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don't want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

Alex Rosa

#18. Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that's the only thing that matters.

Andrew VanWyngarden

#19. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the

Charles Dickens

#20. Are you telling me that even though it's changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky?

Richard Bach

#21. I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

David Maraniss

#22. What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

Charles Baudelaire

#23. With gospel-centered productivity, peace comes first, not second. the mistake we often make is to make peace of mind the result of things we do rather than the source.

Matt Perman

#24. Sky darkened rapidly, darker every second; the wind rustled the trees in the park and the new leaves on the trees stood out tender and yellow against black clouds.

Donna Tartt

#25. There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#26. Most beautiful thing you've ever seen. When the sun dips into the sea, for a split second the water breaks into so many prisms of color it looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope.

Jennifer Murphy

#27. Yes, that was the unbearable thing: having to go on, after your life has been ripped apart, while you struggle to understand how in a split second the whole world has unbelievably changed.

Clare Curzon

#28. It was like a trapeze act: How could you really tell at what second the acrobat pushed away, at what moment the anchor let go? You couldn't, and that was that. You and your deductions from the outcomeL a successful landing or a spiraling fall.

Jodi Picoult

#29. Second. - The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world.

William Gurnall

#30. For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

Anthony Bourdain

#31. Olivia dared not ask, but she had to know. It seemed unlikely her husband could have made a worse choice than Jack Dodger, but if he was her husband's first who would serve as his second? The devil himself? Who is appointed as my son's guardian in that will?

Lorraine Heath

#32. Every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles and hour.

Sylvia Plath

#33. Real existence, real knowledge, and real love are eternally connected with one another, the three in one: where one of them is, the others also must be; they are the three aspects of the One without a second - the Existence - Knowledge - Bliss.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. it wouldn't surprise me if in a little while they begin to worship Leopold the Second the way they worship their fetishes and hideous objects." Where

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#35. Ucho w liczbach: A youthful ear can hear ten octaves of sound, spanning a range from about thirty to twelve tousand vibrations a second. The avarege ear can distinguish sounds a seventeenth of a tone apart. From top to bottom we hear about fourtheen tousend discriminable tones.

Oliver Sacks

#36. You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#37. Each and every day begins with a choice, the first influencing the second, the third and so on ...

Evinda Lepins

#38. In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Aristotle.

#39. In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was a romantic suspense set behind the Iron Curtain, my fourth had no wedding bells, not even in the far distance.

Maynah Lewis

#40. A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.

Johnny Evers

#41. The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

Alexander Hamilton

#42. Time passes at the same speed until romance enters. From that very second the priceless commodity becomes erratic and unstable by accelerating whenever they are together and slowing to an excruciating crawl whenever they are apart.

Carl Henegan

#43. I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

John Dryden

#44. Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

Elisabeth Elliot

#45. Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

Napoleon Hill

#46. Of course I knew what time you would get here, girl. Just as I know what time Goodfellow will knock over my nineteenth-century French mantle clock." Puck jerked up at this, bumping a table and sending a clock crashing to the floor. "To the second," the Clockmaker sighed, closing his eyes.

Julie Kagawa

#47. Like a rollercoaster, my mind had climbed its way to the top - only to witness how far there was to fall. And like a coaster, the second the fear hit, my stomach plummeted with the drop.

Katherine McIntyre

#48. Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV.

Charles Dickens

#49. Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five

Charles Dickens

#50. We as humans are the patterns of life. We are the roads we travel. Our lives make up the insignificance of a moment of the importance of a second. The choices we make are everything. I realize that, now that everything has changed and I'm a different person.

Megan Duke

#51. Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Matt Ridley

#52. It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Steve Jobs

#53. Opiates are, by their very nature, about forgetting. When you're in that narcotic haze, memory functions like some mutant projector, a hell-tuned Bell & Howard. As the film goes in one end, at the other end it's immediately eaten by some kind of acid, dissolving the second the events transpire.

Jerry Stahl

#54. We cannot do it in this way for two reasons. First, we do not yet know all the basic laws: there is an expanding frontier of ignorance. Second, the correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore,

Richard Feynman

#55. Another tip to weld society together. Give the person up to bat at the ATM plenty of space so they're not nervous about you peeking at their PIN number or slipping a blade between their ribs the second the money spits out.

Tim Dorsey

#56. [When] the market is trying to get to terms with, first, lower global growth, particularly out of emerging markets and China. And, second, the market is worried the central banks have run out of ammunition. So put these two things together, and then investors are repricing the market lower.

Mohamed El-Erian

#57. God's truth? How long do these intolerable moments last for God? A trillionth of second? The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth.

Anthony Doerr

#58. At the end of the day, my sole goal, when I go into any scene, is to try to be as honest as I possibly can, and then everything else is second. The most important thing for me is to just be as honest as I possibly can.

Michael Rapaport

#59. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today.

Anonymous

#60. Calculated risk taking will pay huge dividends. How will you ever get to third base with one foot on second? The biggest risk is not taking risks.

Robin S. Sharma

#61. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight

Charles Dickens

#62. Second, the biblical principle of "ask, seek, and knock" is prudent advice for gaining a higher level of access.

T.D. Jakes

#63. If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.

R.C. Sproul

#64. Then we'll be Tarzan and Jane, mating like wildebeests and frolicking from tree limb to tree limb." "The Disney movie never showed them mating." "Jane was a hottie. Tarzan would have tapped that ass the second the credits came up. Now that's a fact.

R.J. Lewis

#65. 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

#66. I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.

Kate Atkinson

#67. An avalanche descends onto the city. A hurricane. Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. Everything is inaudible. The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear.

Anthony Doerr

#68. There are roads known by everyone and there are roads known by no one! Choose the second, the mysterious one where many glories are hidden!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#69. Second, the Tourette's patient cannot not do it: they cannot use free

David Eagleman

#70. Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Anne Waldman

#71. Every second the other person is doing the talking, you're winning.

Julian Moore

#72. You know that split second? The one where you decide if you're going to just smile and continue looking around, or chance an encounter with a stranger? It's a dangerous moment. It changes absolutely everything.

Andrea Randall

#73. The three most important lessons I have learned in my life: First, no-thing is more valuable or important in life than being loved and loving others. Second, the lessons in life never end and it's up to us whether or not we learn from them. Third, life goes on ...

James A. Murphy

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

Philip Schaff

#75. Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

Jeff Miller

#76. Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.

Peter DeFazio

#77. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.

Charles F. Haanel

#78. Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

Martha Beck

#79. ... then he sat on his bed and for a fraction of a second the shadows retreated and he had a fleeting glimpse of reality. He felt dizzy and he closed his eyes. Without knowing it he fell asleep.

Roberto Bolano

#80. As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."

Al Gore

#81. When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.

Eikoh Hosoe

#82. Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

Hans Hofmann

#83. Second, the other person is not the object of intentionality, strictly speaking; the self is not conscious of the other person as Other.[30]

Michael L Morgan

#84. Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal

Charles Dickens

#85. [S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.

Francis William Aston

#86. You always were such a worrier. It was as if you thought your worrying was all that held the world together, and if you stopped for a split second the whole thing would just fly apart.

Paul Murray

#87. If we could see, even for a split second, the depths of God's love for us - all we'd want to do is worship and prayer would never seem a chore.

Mark Hart

#88. Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam ... second, the culture of Islam.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#89. Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Roger Von Oech

#90. The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word ...

N. Scott Momaday

#91. 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

#92. Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness.

Peter Kreeft

#93. Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

Albert Einstein

#94. First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

Peter McWilliams

#95. Studies have shown the subconscious mind can process around 11 million bits of information per second. The conscious mind, however, can only process about 15 to 16 bits of information per second.

James Morcan

#96. Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

Doug Ose

#97. There are two men in me
one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second ... the second?

Mikhail Lermontov

#98. Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

Richard Brautigan

#99. If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.

Michelle Wie

#100. Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.

Vernor Vinge