#second

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#even #highest #honorable #place #rank

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over. ↗

— Drew Brees

#change #diaper #flap #flat #i

I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#back #catch #i #long #long way

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#kind #learning #me #period #really

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#bunch #call #first #i #identified

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. ↗

— George Combe

#admission #air #allowed #attention #brief

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#become #colleges #doomsday #expert #lab

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#buying #car #decide #eight #first

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

#earner #felt #feminine #fiddle #how

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#just #made #materials #second-rate #you