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  • And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

  • I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

    Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.110, Penguin
  • I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican authoritarian republic with a limited electorate - just like the one the writers of our Constitution meant this country to be. When these white Christian patriots sat down to write the Declaration of Independence, there were no black citizens for them to worry about.

    Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.
  • All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

    Men   Hatred   Enemy  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”
  • When I'm with a man, my work takes second place - all I really want to do is get through the day so I can rush home to be with him. That's because my man is the most important part of my life.

    Home   Men   Important  
  • Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

    Country   Rights   Views  
    Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1850.
  • The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals.

    Mistake   Cutting   Ideas  
  • There is no blacklist. In the first place, in the entertainment business, money talks, bullshit walks. So Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins won't be blacklisted because they are bankable stars. In the second place, if you are a woman, the only things you're going to be blacklisted for in Hollywood are body fat and aging.

  • What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

    Taken   Wine   Character  
    Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics
  • I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.

    Believe   Race   Two  
    Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge
  • I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.

  • It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

    Struggle   Yankees   Nuts  
  • Second place is just the first place loser.

  • There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

  • In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

  • When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

  • Second place is really the first loser.

    "George Steinbrenner: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.
  • People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

  • It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

    Dream   Athlete   Play  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.

    Father   Son   Dark  
    SIGMUND FREUD (1939). “MOSES AND MONOTHEISM”
  • Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

    Doe   Easy   Greyhounds  
    Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.33, Penguin UK
  • I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.

  • God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

    John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1865). “Precious Thoughts”, p.101
  • Nobody remembers second place.

  • No one remembers who came in second.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.

    Love   Ambition   Men  
  • When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

    "Television Q&A". St. Petersburg Times, April 11, 1998.
  • I felt like - like I don't know what. Like this wasn't real. Like I was in some Goth version of a bad sitcom. Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire's wife to shack up and procreate. Nice. - Jacob

    Real   Nice   Wife  
  • I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.

    Dog   Tired   Golf  
  • Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

    Thinking   May   Firsts  
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.339
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