Top 1200 Second-Rate Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate

Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!

Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.

You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast, and no one goes out. Artists should have a chance to do it again. That's the challenge: Women artists don't get a second chance. People-of-color artists don't get a second chance. You're put in director's jail, and that's a wrap.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.

It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between space where you're not sure you'll make it to second base. You've let go of one thing and haven't yet latched into another. Most of us choose the security of first base.

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about various aspects of Aschenbach's life and work. But many of them don't appreciate the second level of irony, the one exemplified in setting this narrative voice alongside the more sympathetic one, and inviting us to choose.

Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized proletariat for sustenance without relation to the product of its labor; a demand which threatens the very existence of PROFIT (on the necessary presumption of which Capitalism reposes). The second, and immediately graver danger is that of a revolt for the confiscation of the means of production.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

It's interesting how the frame rate actually changes the perception of the 3D as well as making it more comfortable to watch.

I really love my family and kid, but first of all, it's my hockey, my career. My family is second, and my fans go third. Sometimes my fans go second, and my family is third. It's turning all the time.

It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate.

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity.

The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

I'm very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I've got a high work rate.

If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.

You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.

The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.

Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.

Of all the things in sports, getting a sack is one of the hardest things to do. It's like a last-second, game-winning shot in the NBA. A guy hits the last-second shot, and the fans scream. For us (defensive ends), the sack is everything. It's hard to get there. But once you do, there's nothing like it.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.

Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.

Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.

We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.

The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.

It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.

A slave stands infront of Allah on two occasions. The first during salah, and secondly on the Day of Judgment. Whoseover stands correctly in the first, the second standing will be made easier for him. And whosoever, disregards the first standing, the second standing will be extremely difficult.

Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.

I make sure I eat something healthy every two hours. It keeps my metabolic rate high.