Quotes with first-hand

Quotes 101 till 120 of 1835.

  • Frank Vanderlip A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
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  • Ouida A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Luigi Pirandello A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Boris Becker A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Joseph Roux A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Franz Kafka A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Anna Freud A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Arnold Bennett A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Billie Jean King A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Alexander Smith A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Publilius Syrus A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Edward Gibbon A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Lenny Bruce A lot of people say to me, ''Why did you kill Christ?'' ''I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.'' ''We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.''
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Butch Trucks A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Brad Feld A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Herodotus A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Butler A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Buddha A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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