Quotes with second-highest

Quotes 161 till 180 of 495.

  • William Shakespeare I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Julius Caesar I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Muriel Spark I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Aldous Huxley I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • A. A. Milne I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
    War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Bush I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bill Hader I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Buddy Guy I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • Beck I'm not good at the protocols of dating. I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were dating-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
    Jane magazine, April 2000
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Rosa Parks I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Peter Townshend If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Boris Sidis If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Ben Carson If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Anita Loos If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Antonio Porchia If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Arthur Brisbane If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
    Arthur Brisbane
    American newspaper editor (1864 - 1936)
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  • Bob Kane If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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