Quotes with second-highest

Quotes 261 till 280 of 495.

  • Butch Trucks Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • John F. Kennedy Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • John Wanamaker One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • C. Everett Koop One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Richard Nixon Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Branch Rickey Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • William James Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Gerard De Nerval Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Gore Vidal Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Barry Eisler Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry James People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • John Keats Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bill Shuster President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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