Top 25 Second Prize Quotes
#1. Having you as a friend wasn't second prize. It wasn't something to chafe against. It was an honor.
Courtney Milan
#2. 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.
Ian Rankin
#3. They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.
Tony Curtis
#4. As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
David Mamet
#5. First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.
W.C. Fields
#7. Thomas loved me. He needed me. Maybe I wasn't the first woman he'd loved, and maybe the kind of love a Maddox man felt lasted forever, but I needed him, too. I wasn't the first, but I would be the last. That didn't make me the second prize. It made me his forever.
Jamie McGuire
#8. It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.
Donna Tartt
#9. I think people have an appetite for VR at $200, $300, $400. It's something so new and improves so quickly, people do have an appetite to buy that. If people are getting a new VR headset every two or three years that's incredibly improved, you want to go do that.
Brendan Iribe
#10. Natural selection awards no prize for second place.
Thomas Lewis
#11. Cherchez la femme" is good advice for investigative reporters. "Follow the money" is even better advice.
Ben Bradlee
#12. Oh, Stuart. You think you can do anything. It's one of your great charms, but it's also one of your most aggravating qualities when you think you can move unmovable mountains.
Judith Ivory
#13. Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is "one of the most ... anti-black laws on the statute books" because it destroys entry level jobs for second paycheck earners, teens, and other unskilled workers.
David Horowitz
#14. She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.
Julia Quinn
#15. The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?
Anna Freud
#17. What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
Iain Duncan Smith
#18. 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.
Mark Wahlberg
#19. People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
James Altucher
#20. Our visual systems can play tricks on us, and that is enough to prove they are gadgets, not pipelines to the truth.
Steven Pinker
#21. I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#22. I will respect the corelings, Arlen thought, but I will never stop fighting them.
Peter V. Brett
#23. 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.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#24. May our light shine in this world
so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love
and our compromising words of truth
and give glory to your hallowed name,
Father
John Piper
#25. I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time.
Tionne Watkins
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