Quotes with first-class

Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 1727.

  • George Orwell The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bianca Lawson The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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  • Bill Cosby The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Cat Stevens The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Florence Nightingale The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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  • Sir William Osler The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Bill Viola The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Margaret Young The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
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  • Walter Bagehot The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • John Osborne The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ferdinand Foch The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Barbara Bush The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
    Barbara Bush: A Memoir
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Horace Walpole The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Henry Miller The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Matthew Arnold The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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