Quotes with first-person

Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 2595.

  • Vince Lombardi The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
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  • Calvin Trillin The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Douglas Engelbart The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
    Douglas Engelbart
    American engineer and inventor (1925 - 2013)
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  • Joseph Brodsky The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Bayard Rustin The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision...
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Eugene Kennedy The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
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  • Juliene Berk The real trick is to make the moves in your head first, as a way of testing them out.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carolina Herrera The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
    Original: Le savant n'est pas l'homme qui fournit les vraies réponses; c'est celui qui pose les vraies questions.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • James A. Froude The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Eileen Caddy The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Benny Anderson The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.
    Benny Anderson
    Swedish musician, composer and producer
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  • Boris Yeltsin The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Bob Shacochis The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Abe Fortas The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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