#second

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ↗

— George Bancroft

#blindly #easily #first #ignorance #interest

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#i #number #out #playing #second

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#comparison #i #kind #oh #really

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#beat #believing #biggest #citizen #country

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#bore #boredom #crime #first #perhaps

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#first #first of all #good #high #i

I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#badly #behaved #bloody #both #bus

The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#classical #completely #course #designs #different

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#album #considered #copies #dropped #failure

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#make #second #sing #songs #them