Quotes About Finishing Second

#1. The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

Henry Russell Sanders

#2. Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

David Wright

#3. The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

John F. Kennedy

#4. Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard M. Nixon

#5. You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.

Kenny Luck

#6. In November I received a ransom note telling me exactly what to do if ever I wished to see my uncle Theobald alive again. I do not have an Uncle Theobald, but I wore a pink carnation in my buttonhole and ate nothing but salads for the entire month anyway. In

Neil Gaiman

#7. I played in Kent's triumphant Second XI Trophy final team last season, ironically against Hampshire 2nds at the Rose Bowl last September, finishing with 2-17 off six overs.

James Hibberd

#8. I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and beyond. So I don't think I'll ever have that feeling, unless I'm the one finishing the track.

David Macklovitch

#9. We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

James Jeans

#10. I think the intellectual consistency of Christianity in historical evidence is frankly overwhelming, but my materialist colleagues regard me as a slightly sad case.

Simon Conway Morris

#11. heartrending memory

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#12. You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

Gerard Houllier

#13. The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

Timothy Keller

#14. During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange ... doing the love scene on the barricade.

Josh Young

#15. When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn't until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting.

Melissa McCarthy

#16. Because happy is what happens when all your dreams come true!

Well ... isn't it?

Stephen Schwartz

#17. People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing themselves).

Richie Norton

#18. There's always tomorrow."
"Exactly," she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn't starve to death, she decided. Maybe she'd eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.

Janet Evanovich

#19. Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess?

Britney Spears

#20. In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#21. Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own ... and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered only by the outlines of a face long-loved.

Diana Gabaldon