Second Quotes

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The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and… — Jean-Claude Van Damme
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh
I usually have two feelings about service. The first is when I'm going to give service I feel as they I don't like doing this… — Randall Wright
It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business. — Robert Kennedy
Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser… — Stephen Levine
During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the… — Soren Kierkegaard
Nobody remembers who came in second. — Charles M. Schulz
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second,… — Michel de Certeau
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently… — Albert Einstein
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone. But… — Bernadette Roberts
The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is… — Lydia Sigourney
In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that… — Mata Amritanandamayi
A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which… — G. H. Hardy
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. — Julius Caesar
There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal;… — Freeman Dyson
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that… — Mark Haddon
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external.… — Ramana Maharshi

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