Quotes with first-born

Quotes 381 till 400 of 1905.

  • Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Eugène Delacroix Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Paul Theroux Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Anton Chekhov Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Aneurin Bevan Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Elsa Schiaparelli Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
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  • Ben Elliot Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Virgil Fear is proof of a low born soul.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Mark Twain Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alva Myrdal First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bobby Hull First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Brene Brown First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Napoleon Hill First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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