Quotes with second-order

Quotes 721 till 740 of 765.

  • Barbara Corcoran When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Saadi Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Oscar Wilde While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Emile Durkheim While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Barton Seaver While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Woman was God's second mistake.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boris Pasternak Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
    As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
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    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Elie Wiesel Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ben E. King Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Boris Pasternak Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barbara de Angelis You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Audre Lorde You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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