English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Seconds Quotes (page 69)

Charlotte Bronte quote: "I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second..."
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. Charlotte Bronte
Suzanne Collins quote: "And don't you let your guard down for a second because you..."
And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable. Suzanne Collins
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through... Walt Whitman
Stephen King quote: "Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to..."
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. Stephen King
Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers. Leo Tolstoy
Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle. Vladimir Nabokov
It's like watching paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction - 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 an hour. Sylvia Plath
Ray Bradbury quote: "Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds."
Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. Ray Bradbury
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now. Viktor E. Frankl
Jack Kerouac quote: "The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the..."
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. Jack Kerouac
Elie Wiesel quote: "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Elie Wiesel
Victor Hugo quote: "First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To..."
First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it. Victor Hugo
I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary... I forget the third thing. Tom Stoppard
It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia. Ian Mcewan
As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, some weather-beaten, ragged old rook? nests, burdening their higher branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea. Charles Dickens

Popular Topics

Popular Author