Quotes with safety-first

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1586.

  • Abdolkarim Soroush People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Anthony de Mello People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Martin Luther People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Blake Mycoskie People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Amy Tan People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Ben Elton People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Alistair Cooke People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • Billy Collins Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Ben Hecht Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
    Source: A guide for the bedevilled
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Daniel Defoe Pride the first peer and president of hell.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
    Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Beckett Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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