#second

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ↗

— Willie Tyler

#place #reason #same #second #strike

When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#concentrate #every #every second #every step #exactly

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#also #around #black #black hole #clinton

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time. ↗

— Bob Hayes

#any #attention #because #every #heart

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#chance #could #course #dozens #easily

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#certainly #christian #desire #first #first of all

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#country #europeans #every #first #forthcoming

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#celibacy #christian #christian life #enjoyments #fasting

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#billion #dollars #donor #further #humanitarian

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. ↗

— Diane Lane

#because #become #becomes #capacities #directors