#second

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#could #fire #had #i #interest

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#billion #consider #days #dollars #eleven

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#had #i #jumping #me #rice

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. ↗

— Voltaire

#first #rank #second #shines #who

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares! ↗

— Zac Efron

#basketball #basketball team #championships #day #double

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#day #down #first #garden #had

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one. ↗

— John Entwistle

#another #bass #couple #fourth #him

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#bush #going #his #leadership #nader

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#commit #crimes #did #during #germany

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#did #enough #give #got #identified