Quotes with first-born

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 1905.

  • Doris Lessing What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Bill Hader When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Elie Wiesel When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
    Source: Arutz Sheva (17 April 2010)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Mme de Stael When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • W. H. Auden When a succesful author analyzes the reasons for his success, he generally underestimates the talent he was born with, and overestimates his skill in employing it.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Orwell When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
    Source: Coming Up for Air
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
    Source: Aion (1951)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bonnie Bassler When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Samuel Johnson When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Byron Dorgan When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Robert Bridges When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
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  • Baltasar Gracián When desire dies, fear is born.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Robert Bridges When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
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  • Ban Ki-moon When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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