Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.” — Lesley Kagen Copy Share Image
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. —Judy Garland” — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
“We’ve just got to face the fact that we’re second rate. With the fate of humanity in our hands.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do… — Laozi Copy Share Image
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from… — John Simon Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
It was important to me to change the narrative. It's important because it has an impact on everything you do. It doesn't… — Mo Abudu Copy Share Image
It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical examples afforded by their… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Be the first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else! — Cherry Forever Copy Share Image
“Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck.” — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. — Horace Copy Share Image
Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck. — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
