Quotes with first-person

Quotes 2401 till 2420 of 2595.

  • Bryan Batt When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bill Hybels When Jesus prayed the model prayer we call the Lord's Prayer, his first requests were that God's name be shown reverence, that his kingdom come, that his will be done.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bono When John Lennon sings, Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Hardy When my family first found out about my part in 'EastEnders' they were happy for me and very supportive.
    Ben Hardy
    British actor (1991 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Jacob Riis When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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  • Bre Pettis When people have a MakerBot, they have a different mindset from everybody else who grew up as a consumer. Instead of thinking, 'I need to go buy that,' they first think, 'Do I need to go buy that? I could just MakerBot that.'
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • B. B. King When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Brian Austin Green When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Barry Zito When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • Bee Wilson When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Ben Zobrist When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • James Baldwin When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carroll Quigley When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Benigno Aquino III When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Shana Alexander When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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