Quotes of Secondary - somelinesforyou

“ Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ A minor operation is one that is done on someone else. ”

- Dr. Richard Selzer

“ People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ When we travel life's roads with those we love, the point of destination is always secondary to the quality of the journey. ”

- Mary Prince

“ We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration. ”

- John Negroponte

“ Is the quick and stoic stepper going to spawn a secondary event-a maternithon for expectant mothers? ”

- Bud Collins

“ There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens. ”

- Eric Carr

“ Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'. ”

- Cary Grant

“ We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ”

- Swami Vivekananda

“ The engineering is secondary to the vision. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Man's Search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning… Man, however, is able to live and even to die for the sake of his ideals and values! ”

- Victor Frankl

“ Yet the resources of this country are great… we may produce a conviction to the world that we deserve to be free-for my own part, I am such, an enthusiast for independence, that I would hesitate to enter heaven thro' the means of a secondary cause unless I had made the utmost exertions to merit it. ”

- Anthony Wayne

“ As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. ”

- Christopher Nolan

“ We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond. ”

- James Jeffords
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