Quotes with first

Quotes 201 till 220 of 1511.

  • Akhenaton Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • William James Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Paul Klee Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Butler Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Stokely Carmichael Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Bruce Johnston Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Daniel Day Lewis Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence - the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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  • Buzz Aldrin Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bob Kane Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective.
    Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Carlos Santana Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George Santayana Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Candice Swanepoel Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.
    Candice Swanepoel
    South African model and philanthropist (1988 - )
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  • Billy Eckstine Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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