Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 4203 authors

But how to know the falsity of death? How can we know there is no death? Until we know that, our fear of death will… — Rajneesh
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is… — Saul Alinsky
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second… — John Quincy Adams
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity… — Calvin Coolidge
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the… — Ronald Reagan
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were… — Colin Ward
I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every… — Winston Churchill
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being… — Casey Miller
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… — Noam Chomsky
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. — Mignon McLaughlin
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their… — Benjamin Franklin
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at… — William Hazlitt
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have… — William T. Piper
I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching. — James M. Barrie
Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop. — Kurt von Schleicher
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is… — Janis Ian
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power… — James Madison
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an… — Duke Ellington

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