Quotes with safety-first

Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 1586.

  • Wyndham Lewis The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Aaron Hill The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Booth Tarkington The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • H Broun The most profilic period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
    H Broun
     
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  • Malcolm X The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Callie Khouri The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Giambattista Vico The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Arthur Bloch The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bob Riley The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • C. L. R. James The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Plato The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Robert Herrick The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • William M. Evarts The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
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  • Bobby Rahal The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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