Quotes with second-highest

Quotes 201 till 220 of 495.

  • Casey Wilson Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Alan Cohen It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bob Ney It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Hilaire Belloc It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Jeanette Winterson It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
    The Passion (2007) 19
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Barry Gibb It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Margaret Sackville Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • John Donne Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Lord Acton Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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