#second

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#first #government #honorable #misery #office

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#act #authorization #barriers #breaking #congress

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#establish #first #future #happen #i

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines. ↗

— Christopher Lee

#between #dracula #everybody #first #gap

I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness. ↗

— Al Leiter

#elevates #event #every #feels #game

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? ↗

— Bernard Levin

#contemplate #dog #equipped #happened #only

Second guesses in putting are fatal. ↗

— Bobby Locke

#guesses #putting #second

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described. ↗

— George Ripley

#before #described #drawn #easily #extract

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#audience #only #right #second-guess #think

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#excellent #first #good #intelligence #itself