Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 4203 authors

But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we… — Sargent Shriver
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The… — Arthur David Ritchie
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has… — Augustus De Morgan
Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on… — Kim Gordon
People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make… — H. P. Blavatsky
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second... — Clive Woodward
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field… — Sun Tzu
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I… — Tim Freeman
Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But… — Annie Oakley
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into… — Thomas Jefferson
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's… — Jerry Fodor
Newspapers are the second hand of history. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to… — Billy Mills
It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some… — Marla Runyan
A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I… — Ken Doherty
A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell… — Dan Millman
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are… — Eknath Easwaran
My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of… — Doug Flutie
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway… — Bob Schaffer
The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our… — Suzanna Hupp

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