Quotes with first-person

Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 2595.

  • Callie Khouri Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Rose Tremain Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
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    Rose Tremain
    English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1943 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Johnson Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
    The Joy Journal
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  • John Andrew Holmes Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
    John Andrew Holmes
    American physician and writer (1874 - 1937)
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  • Josh Billings Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bill Dedman New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Dedman New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon Hill No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abel Stevens No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
    Abel Stevens
    American Methodist clergy (1815 - 1897)
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  • Epictetus No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Menander of Athens No just person ever became quickly rich.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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