Quotes with second-greatest

Quotes 741 till 760 of 851.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George W. Truett To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
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  • Samuel Johnson To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Calvin Coolidge To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.
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  • Henri Cartier-Bresson To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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  • Truman Capote To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
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    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Benjamin Jowett To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Billy Corgan Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long....
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bruno Mars Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Adam Duritz Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Ben Hecht Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Billy Bennett Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year,
    So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog
    And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said:
    Your green tie for my little yellow dog.
    The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 13
    Billy Bennett
    British comedian
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Raymond Holliwell Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Marcia Wieder Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • W. Secker Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
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  • Alfred Adler War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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