Quotes with first-person

Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 2595.

  • Stuart Wilde The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
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  • Claudius Claudianus The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
    Claudius Claudianus
    Latin writer of Greek descent (370 - 404)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Pearl S. Buck The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • William Hazlitt The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Will Rogers The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Jane Austen The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Burt Rutan The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • William M. Evarts The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
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  • Bobby Rahal The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Brian Tracy The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Carl Bernstein The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Atom Egoyan The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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