Quotes with first-born

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1905.

  • Epictetus No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Francis Quarles No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • John Milton No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • James Baldwin No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bob Ehrlich No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Seneca No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Kofi Annan No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Camille Paglia No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Cesare Pavese No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Benny Green No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Albert Einstein No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Aldous Huxley Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Baruch Spinoza None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Brene Brown Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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