The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord’s.
We’re going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we’ve got to reduce the world population 90 percent.
First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
The groves were God’s first temples.
I’m a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that’s my primary responsibility.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.
First feelings are always the most natural.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. ‘Educated’ is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.
If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, ‘Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,’ the first thing I said was, ‘Lee, you can’t make a race horse out of a mule. I don’t want to do it.’ He said, ‘I didn’t ask you to make it; you work for me.’
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man’s position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she’s in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky’s the limit!
Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It’s an ego trip, and I’m not on an ego trip. I don’t have ambitions – I have a vision.
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities.
I did meet ‘The Everly Brothers’ once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil’s father, Ike Everly.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
Every time I hear that Champions League song, it reminds me of hearing it for the first time in the old Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
A first love always occupies a special place.
It’s very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that’s not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It’s a gut feeling.
My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
I now believe in love at first sight. Especially after it’s happened to me.
Whenever I’m stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It’s so peaceful.
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.
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.
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.
Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.
Our first and last love is self-love.
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
