Second Quotes

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

Second thoughts, they say, are best.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

God always offers us a second chance in life.

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

Surgery is always second best. If you can so something else, it’s better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place else to go.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I love every second of being a mom.

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

This fathering is a man's second chance at living.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.

Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.

And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.