#second

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. ↗

— Sam Houston

#always #class #extreme #favor #invested

People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them. ↗

— James Caan

#because #brilliant #directors #experts #first

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. ↗

— Herb Caen

#bigger #born-again #christians #even #pain

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#football #high #high school #i #play

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#difference #disastrous #first #i #i have learned

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#critical #down #far #first #five

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus. ↗

— Luke Ford

#believes #chosen #church #coming #day

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#capitalism #convinced #decades #democrats #economy

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ↗

— Eduardo Galeano

#first kiss #glass #kiss #mortal #second

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. ↗

— Ken Harrelson

#baseball #cares #everything #fence #golf