Second Quotes

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Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing. — Twyla Tharp
There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques;… — Isadora Duncan
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming. — Agnes de Mille
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to… — Roger von Oech
If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to… — Charles Luckman
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we… — Izaak Walton
We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be… — Ernest Holmes
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. — Anna Quindlen
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through… — Theodor Fontane
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational… — Mark Twain
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. — Plotinus
Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination;… — Wu Ta-ch'i
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should… — Benjamin Franklin
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second… — Wynton Marsalis
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one. — Duke Ellington
~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?...… — Jodie Foster
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve… — George Washington
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter… — Mark Twain

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