Quotes with first-naming

Quotes 521 till 540 of 1516.

  • Kirk Kirkpatrick If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
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  • Harry F. Banks If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
    Harry F. Banks
    American producer (1896 - 1915)
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  • Harry Weinberger If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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  • Archer J. P. Martin If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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  • Boethius If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
    You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
    But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
    Drifting and losing his mastery,
    Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
    And binds the chain with which he will be bound.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ben Affleck If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • William Shakespeare If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Blaise Pascal If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
    Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Camille Paglia If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Doug Horton If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Ben Shapiro If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Samuel Butler If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Alexander Haig If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bee Wilson If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bruce Kent If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.
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  • Alphonse Karr If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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