Quotes with first-rate

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1569.

  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Margaret Young The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
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  • Walter Bagehot The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • John Osborne The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Oscar Wilde The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ferdinand Foch The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Barbara Bush The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
    Barbara Bush: A Memoir
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Horace Walpole The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Norman Tebbit The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Henry Miller The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Barbara Walters The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Maggie Kuhn The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • James Fenton The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
    James Fenton
    English poet, journalist and literary (1949 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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