#second

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#another #another day #day #fact #gone

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. ↗

— David Simon

#does #feel #i #i think #life

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#complete #flop #half #second #twentieth

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#achieved #after #ago #blair #created

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#creation #declared #delusive #direct #distribution

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#favorite #road #second #side

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife. ↗

— Roger Stone

#blue jeans #i #jeans #met #never

The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#america #american #between #families #family

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#christian #christianity #civil #civil liberty #civilization

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#first #got #hard #hard thing #interest