Quotes with second

Quotes 81 till 100 of 304.

  • Adlai Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bobby Scott Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bill Richardson Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Ali Smith Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Thomas Jefferson He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • George Carlin Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Lou Holtz How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Anne Perry I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Adam Jones I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Erin Cleary I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
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  • Benjamin Franklin I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Aaron Spelling I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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