Quotes with first-person

Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 2595.

  • Norman Douglas Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Billie Lourd She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Mark Twain She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Hazlitt Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Philip James Bailey Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Alexander Herzen Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Isadora Duncan So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Ben Shahn So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Bob Edwards Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Bill Vaughan Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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