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Live in the moment. Day by day! Tomorrow isnt promised so if you thought about it ... even just for a second ... DO IT! — B.M. Hardin

I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second. — Taylor Swift

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

Give me a smelly hello, and a tasty goodbye. The two are connected, and without the first, you couldn't enjoy the second. — Jarod Kintz

Second, the biblical principle of "ask, seek, and knock" is prudent advice for gaining a higher level of access. — T.D. Jakes

Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman. — Casey Wilson

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business. — Robert Kennedy

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. — Laurie Anderson

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. — Jackie Robinson

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second. — Geezer Butler

She seethed like water the second before it rolls to a boil. — Sarah Addison Allen

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second. — Ahmed Zewail

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. — Judy Garland

For a second, Americans could still feel like big swinging dicks. Solidarity, baby. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none. — Cofer Black

Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second. — August Alsina

because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. I — Michael Chabon

The world always looks nicer when it's a little blurry - that's why so many of us have a second glass of wine at dinner. — Jenny Lawson

I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands. — Graeme McDowell

They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded. — Michael Ondaatje

Be willing to give people a second chance. You'd be surprised how well people respond to another opportunity to succeed. — Robert Cheeke

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A historian has many duties ... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing. — Richard Virenque

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. — Ben Katchor

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. — Branch Rickey

Adding the second option creates a conflict, forcing a trade-off between price and quality. — Barry Schwartz

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Tania." Her voice was soothing. "There is a second love. And a third love. And if you're lucky, a fourth and a fifth, too. — Paullina Simons

I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world. — Henry David Thoreau

Shh," I interrupted him. "Hold on a second. I think I'm having an epiphany here. — Stephenie Meyer

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood. — Simon Hoggart

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence. — Marina Tsvetaeva

I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution. — Joe Manchin

Nick: My second point is the same one Larry made about the Judge. The Adversary is not going to expect us to send a retarded person as a spy. — Stephen King

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect. — Robert A. Heinlein

Everyone makes mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance, — Mo'ne Davis

N the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self ... — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth. — Ian Holloway

He lived.
He made it.
A second chance,
given to one
and not the other.
And this?
This is what he did with it? — Lisa Schroeder

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. — Ed Greenwood

A young and clueless second-lieutenant straight out of the factory, I was very much surplus to the requirements. — Patrick Hennessey

The second best thing after a gift itself is the way of giving it — Ali Boussi

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second. — Phil Mickelson

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school. — Barney Frank

The people have a right to keep and bear arms. — Patrick Henry

Unfortunately, there is not a book in the Bible called First and Second Executive or Letter to the Christian Plumbers. Instead, — William, Executive Editor Messenger

The continued reading led to her second conclusion: The Lord Ruler was far more whiny than any god had a right to be. When — Brandon Sanderson

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after. — Herman Melville

It is neutral if you go under spell in your first love; but if it happens for a second time you have mistaken love with something else. — M.F. Moonzajer

UFC, they can make a big star but the second that person loses, they lose credibility, and how do you continue to make that star rise? — Stephanie McMahon

While the most important thing for a woman to have is money, the second most important is options. A lady must have her options. — Michelle Gable

Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content. — Francine Prose

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right. — Bertolt Brecht

A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience — Samuel Johnson

A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. — Julie Roberts

In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling. — Frederick Lenz

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. — Helen Rowland

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? — Peter Jackson

Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha) — Helen Fielding

Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second. — Phil Kerby

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. — Ernst Zundel

Just give me a second to get my wind back. Who the hell put that pole there? — Aisha Tyler

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." — Robert Breault

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids. — Master P

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking. — Andrew Greeley

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile. — Ted Allen

Take a second look at what you are about to do ... A second look prevents a second chance. — Israelmore Ayivor

I stay where I am for just one second longer, for one second reveling in the feeling of being held, touched with tenderness, even if it isn't real. — Cindy C. Bennett

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year. — John Flansburgh

When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am an actress first, a singer second. — Grace Jones

In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad. — Danny M. Cohen

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation. — James C. Scott

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position — Murray Walker

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother. — Siobhan Fallon Hogan

A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet. — James Sanderson

(Addie) I said. (If it had been you - if it were you trapped inside. If you were the one who couldn't move, I'd go back. I'd go back in a second.) — Kat Zhang

We all make mistakes that torture us the whole of our lives. Unfortunately, fate doesn't always allow us a second chance. I — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We did a good job and I'm just glad I have it for a second time. — Petra Kvitova

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show. — Godfrey Gao

I felt like everyones second choice, which is why a compliment could catch me off guard. Page 106 — Sonia Sotomayor

... a prudent archer has always a second bowstring — Henry James

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. — Jodi Picoult

First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast - that means you're a professional. — David Belle

And in the span of a single second we were no longer across the hall from each other - — Gena Showalter

The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it. — Prosper Of Aquitaine

Uh, Miss, you have second and third degree burns that need treatment,"he said.
"They'll be okay. I'll just use concealer for a while. — Cinda Williams Chima

Mark Twain said "all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources. — Sean Patrick

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world! — Neal Cassady

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world. — Nicola Sturgeon