Second Quotes

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

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.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.

The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.