Quotes with safety-first

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 1586.

  • Benjamin Franklin Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Georges Bernanos What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Buzz Aldrin What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • John Ruskin What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Drayton What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you'll find an answer.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Wendell Phillips What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Epictetus What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Burton Richter What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Johnson What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charlotte Brontë What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Joan Didion What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
    Source: Faceboek (2013)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Doris Lessing What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Bill Hader When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Elie Wiesel When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
    Source: Arutz Sheva (17 April 2010)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Mme de Stael When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Orwell When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
    Source: Coming Up for Air
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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