Quotes with first-hand

Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 1835.

  • 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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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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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  • 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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  • Caroll Spinney When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Marc Chagall When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • Candice Millard When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bart Stupak When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Bobby Darin When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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