Quotes with first-person

Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 2595.

  • Sidney Madwed The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Bhagavad Gita The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Marcel Proust The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Donna Tartt The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Berenice Abbott The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
    Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • Ba Jin The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • David Hume The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 101
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Campbell Brown The consequences of substandard teaching go far beyond whether college or a good job is in reach. They affect earning potential, with implications throughout a person's life.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Bertrand Russell The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Tillotson The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • May Sarton The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bruce Sutter The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Albert Camus The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Richard W. Livingston The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
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