All Quotes

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
‐‐ David Brainerd

First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
‐‐ Ed Markey

First Round has an opportunity: to create an entirely new kind of online publication, built for technology entrepreneurs, where they can learn how to build better companies.
‐‐ Josh Kopelman

First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
‐‐ Karrie Webb

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
‐‐ Epictetus

First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.
‐‐ John Frankenheimer

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
‐‐ George Crook

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.
‐‐ George J. Mitchell

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

First, the newcomers are eager to come in front of the camera, and later they are like, 'No, sorry, sorry, no pictures'. What is this? I say fame is a very dangerous and bitter thing.
‐‐ Boman Irani

First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.
‐‐ John S. Watson

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.
‐‐ Jim Ramstad

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.
‐‐ Benjamin Tucker

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
‐‐ Gustav Stickley

First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that's a position that I take seriously. That's the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization.
‐‐ Susan Wojcicki

First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones.
‐‐ Craig McCracken

First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.
‐‐ Evan Sayet

First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?
‐‐ Ed Helms

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
‐‐ Edward Bond

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
‐‐ Margaret Cavendish

First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.
‐‐ Haley Reinhart

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

First thing I do in the morning is give thanks to God for another day, and then turn to HLN News or ESPN to see what's going on in the world.
‐‐ Vivica A. Fox

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.
‐‐ Julian Castro

First things first, second things never.
‐‐ Shirley Conran

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.
‐‐ Jay Chiat

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

First thoughts are not always the best.
‐‐ Vittorio Alfieri

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
‐‐ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.
‐‐ Robert Forster

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
‐‐ Mac Davis

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
‐‐ Randy Houser

First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
‐‐ Hugo von Hofmannsthal

First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
‐‐ Vicente Fox

First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
‐‐ Otto Hahn

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
‐‐ George William Norris

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.
‐‐ Michael Chertoff

First we have to believe, and then we believe.
‐‐ Martha Graham