Quotes with second-oldest

Quotes 41 till 60 of 324.

  • Katharine Whitehorn Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Bipasha Basu Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • George Ade Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Ban Ki-moon As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bobby Wallace As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
    Original: L'automne est un deuxième printemps où chaque feuille est une fleur.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Samuel Johnson Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Bernard Berenson Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Bode Miller But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bono Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
    About the album October (album) (1981) in a speech accepting induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (17 March 2005).
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bill Maris CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Anna Jameson Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Ann Coulter Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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