Seconded Quotes

#1. All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.

Conrad Black

#2. When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

William Shakespeare

#3. Pym!" The Countess spotted a new victim, and her voice went a little dangerous. "I seconded you to look after Miles. Would you care to explain this scene?"
There was a thoughtful pause. In a voice of simple honesty, Pym replied, "No, Milady.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. You should enjoy every seconded for reading"- Ayah

Ayah

#5. I fear I must warn you, if that ladle finds it's way to her lips, we will be revisited by my lunch," Ichabod stated without the slightest hint of a jest. "And mine will provide it company," Rip seconded.

Stacey Rourke

#6. Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

Bruno Bettelheim

#7. When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

Samuel Johnson

#8. We all talked at the same time, not listening to one another, sometimes seconding and praising one another in order to be seconded and praised in turn, sometimes getting angry with one another - just as in a lunatic asylum.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Street law dictated that for a parley of this kind each lieutenant be seconded by two of his foot soldiers and that they all be unarmed. Parley. The word felt like a deception - strangely prim, an antique. No matter what street law decreed, this night smelled like violence.

Leigh Bardugo

#10. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#11. The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is in the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates.A book is a heart that beats in the chest of another.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#13. Full circle. The beginning and the end.

Kami Garcia

#14. Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

Virginia Woolf

#15. A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

Nicky Whelan

#16. In the whole of the universe there are only two: the lover and the beloved.

Bhai Sahib Singh

#17. I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that he was beautiful. I weep for him because whenever he lay on my banks and looked into my waters, I could see my own beauty reflected in his eyes.

Paulo Coelho

#18. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#19. With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

Groucho Marx

#20. Dessert doesn't count if you're sharing someone else's.

Elizabeth Jane Howard