Firsts Quotes
20399 quotes by 9251 authors
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Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from…
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
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If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.
— Laozi
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Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their…
— Isadora Duncan
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If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
— Horace
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.
— Hugh Black
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Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others,…
— Daphne du Maurier
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Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first…
— Carl Jung
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you…
— Henry Beston
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The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather…
— Matt Damon
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This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the…
— Martin Sheen
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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and…
— Howard Schultz
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a…
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and…
— Gary Snyder
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A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. My first thought was to rescue two more, but I don't want to go…
— Joan Rivers
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