Quotes with first

Quotes 681 till 700 of 1511.

  • Marcelene Cox Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Margaret Mead Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Wilson Mizner Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Al Capp Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Lord George Byron Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Hecht Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Amos Oz Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
    The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016
    Amos Oz
    Israeli writer (1939 - 2018)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Cesare Pavese Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Hailey Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Betty Smith Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
    Betty Smith
    American writer (1896 - 1972)
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  • Sigmund Freud Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Jonathan Swift Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!
    Polite Conversation (1738)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Lucille Ball Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Billy Graham Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Andy Rooney Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Arthur Helps Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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