There Are No Second Acts Quotes

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Dominique Fabre

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Graydon Carter

#6. 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

#7. She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange. It was the usual things of life that filled her with silent rage; which was natural enough inasmuch as, to her vision, almost everything that was usual was inqiuitous.

Henry James

#8. 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

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

Philip Schaff

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Some people were simply broken, something inside them grown wrong and twisted.

Erika Johansen

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

Kiefer Sutherland

#14. 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

#15. I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family.

Dionne Warwick

#16. Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

Erika Slezak

#17. And let the truth be your delight ... Proclaim it ... , but with a certain congeniality.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#18. The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

Imelda Marcos

#19. You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

Jesse Jackson

#20. No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#21. 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

#22. My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines down through the mountains of the, ah, the Viet Cong. And the special American special forces were to train their special forces to do that.

Roger Hilsman

#23. I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.

Marilyn Manson

#24. 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

#25. I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

Richard Dawkins

#26. I'm doing pretty well. If you don't get married, you can't get divorced. Why couldn't we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

Adam Levine

#27. 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