Quotes with first-hand

Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 1835.

  • Thomas à Kempis You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • C. S. Lewis You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • A. Waugh You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
    A. Waugh
     
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  • Charles E. Popplestone You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life - your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night...
    Charles E. Popplestone
    American author
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  • Barbara de Angelis You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Learned Hand You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
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  • Audre Lorde You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Sher You don't have to get it right the first time.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Carole Bouquet You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Ethel Barrymore You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
    Ethel Barrymore
    American actress (1879 - 1959)
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  • Ethel Barrymore You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
    Ethel Barrymore
    American actress (1879 - 1959)
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  • Yogi Berra You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bernhard Langer You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bill Allred You know, that's the first time I've ever been able to smell a website.
    Source: referring to Kip Wingers website Radio From Hell (February 6, 2007)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Birch Bayh You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Raymond Holliwell You must see first before you can believe.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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