Quotes with first-person

Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 2595.

  • Asa Hutchinson Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Charles Lamb Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Georges Bernanos What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Augustus Hare What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Robert M. Lindner What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Buzz Aldrin What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Drayton What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you'll find an answer.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Hitopadesa What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Cam Newton What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Bella Freud What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Beth Henley What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Bob Kane What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Anita Hill What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Brad Feld What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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