Quotes with first-person

Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 2595.

  • Bill Maris Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
    - +
     0
  • Henry Fielding Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
    - +
     0
  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Cardinal De Richelieu Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
    - +
     0
  • Douglas Adams See first, think later, then test. But always see first.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
    - +
     0
  • John Dryden Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
    - +
     0
  • Tacitus Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Johnson Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
    - +
     0
  • Napoleon Hill Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Jane Austen Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
    - +
     0
  • Andrew Marvell Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
    - +
     0
  • Patricia Sampson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
    - +
     0
  • Walter Benjamin Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
    - +
     0
  • Bobby McFerrin Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Tony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Anthony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carl Safina Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Camille Paglia Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Philip Larkin Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me). Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
    - +
     0
All first-person famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 79)