Quotes with first-born

Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1905.

  • Antisthenes Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Herbert Spencer People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People are born fools and damned for not being wiser.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Carson Kressley People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'
    Carson Kressley
    American television personality, actor, and designer (1969 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Anthony de Mello People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Martin Luther People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Blake Mycoskie People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Bill Murray People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Amy Tan People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Eva Le Gallienne People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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  • Ben Elton People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Alistair Cooke People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Cesare Pavese Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • John Butler Yeats Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
    John Butler Yeats
    Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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