Second Rate Quotes - Page 5

• There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

  Gerald Finzi

  Birthday, World, Rooms

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• If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

  Donald O. Clifton

  Wind, Inner Strength, Denial

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Giving, Listening, Opinion

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dirty, Ideas, Politics

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• Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

  Horace

  Men, Poetry, Rate

  'Ars Poetica' l. 372

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• Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Facts, Details

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS

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• I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical examples afforded by their ability and work, they are not a second-rate or inferior people in comparison with others.  On the contrary they are their equals according to all true standards of values and therefore entitled to equal rights in all respects.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rights, People, Wish

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• I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Powerful, Reading, Class

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• I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

  Sarah Waters

  Novelists, Academic, Rate

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• When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

  David Morrell

  Writing, Firsts, Teach

  "David Morrell & Ken Follett Talk About Writing". Interview with Jessica Strawser, www.writersdigest.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Donald Trump has no design to transform America. Donald Trump doesn't think America is second-rate. Donald Trump doesn't think America's guilty. Donald Trump doesn't think America owes people things. Donald Trump doesn't think that the borders are to be wide open so that anybody who wants here can come here because we've screwed them at some time in the past.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Past, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.

  Noam Chomsky

  Russia, Iran, Korea

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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