Audrey Hepburn

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

British Actress

Manuel Neuer

Bayern are a club where success is demanded, and second place isn't particularly appreciated. We have a history and culture to respect.

German Athlete

Josh Billings

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

American Comedian

Taylor Swift

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

American Singer

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

American Scientist

Dakota Fanning

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

American Actress

John F. Kennedy

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

American President

Franz Kafka

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Novelist

Fabio Lanzoni

I believe, in life, you always get a second chance.

Italian Actor

Gail Simmons

You don't get second chances in the real world.

Canadian Entertainer

Use 'second' to emphasize a short time or brief action.

Brevity Connotation

'Wait a second' can imply a request for quick patience.

Expression of Impatience

In conversation, 'second' can indicate pausing to think.

Conversational Pause

When ranking, 'second' is used after 'first' to denote position.

Ordinal Usage

'Second' can imply not being the top or the best choice.

Not the Best

Use 'second' to highlight the sequence in lists or events.

Emphasize Succession

A 'second chance' gives someone the opportunity to try again.

Opportunity for Improvement

'Second chance' can suggest forgiveness or leniency.

Forgiveness Implication

'Second' adverbially often means 'not first' in rankings or achievements.

Non-primary Achievement

Use 'second' to indicate someone or something just behind the winner.

Runner-up Position

To 'second' is to support another's suggestion or idea.

Backing a Proposal

Indicates agreement with a course of action being proposed.

Approval of Action

In sports, 'second' refers to a supporter, not just in boxing.

Support Role

'Second' emphasizes the supportive role without leading.

Assistant Importance

 The ox came in second, with the powerful tiger right behind him. The rabbit, too small to battle the current, nimbly hopped across stones and logs to come in fourth. Next came the dragon, who could have flown directly across, but stopped to help some creatures she had encountered on the way. After her came the horse, galloping across the river.

The myth behind the...

 and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second language. The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life can also help delay the onset of diseases, like Alzheimer's and dementia by as much as five years. The idea of major cognitive benefits to bilingualism may seem intuitive now,

The benefits of a...

 but in reality, they invariably turn out to be drawing energy from some external source. Even if engineers could somehow design a machine that didn't violate the first law of thermodynamics, it still wouldn't work in the real world because of the second law. The second law of thermodynamics

Why don't perpetual...

 first, to detect food that's gone bad. And second, because the more variety we have in our diet, the more likely we are to get all the nutrients we need. To keep that variety up, we need to be able to recognize a new food, and more importantly, we need to want to keep eating new foods.

How sugar affects the...

 Nematocyst discharge can occur in less than a millionth of a second, making it one of nature's fastest biomechanical processes. Nematocysts can continue to fire even after a jellyfish has died, so it's important to remove lingering tentacles stuck to the skin.

How does a jellyfish...

 Chances are the second description wasn't as vivid to you as the first. The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. Fiction engages the senses, helps us create vivid mental simulacra

How to write descriptivel...

 Here's the second reason. That's my mom. Anyone here ever listen to what their mom told them to do? Everyone ever do what their mom told them to do? I rarely did, but what my mom said to me was, one day, she handed me a newspaper,

Are China and the US...

 quite frankly if i wanted a different body or i wanted different health i had to change the equation somehow the second thing i learned was that if i imagined my future healthy self and started living that life

The psychological weight...

 which is something that I've had to learn to say. Some people say that the second year is harder than the first. That's kind of where I'm beginning to feel more the physicality of this loss more deeply.

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 he's been caring for all winter. He must now put his chick at risk. In these temperatures, it could freeze in seconds.

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Conversational Pause

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