All Quotes

From the end of 2006 until the end of 2008 I think I met with Abu Mazen more often than any Israeli leader has ever met any Arab leader. I met him more than 35 times. They were intense, serious negotiations.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

From the end spring new beginnings.
‐‐ Pliny the Elder

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
‐‐ Carl Schurz

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.
‐‐ Vitruvius

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
‐‐ Scott Hamilton

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
‐‐ Friedrich Engels

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
‐‐ Alice Hamilton

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
‐‐ Natasha Lyonne

From the first Lauren Luke tutorial I watched, I was completely taken with her.
‐‐ Andrea Seigel

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
‐‐ Julia Margaret Cameron

From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
‐‐ Edgar Meyer

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
‐‐ Janet Frame

From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
‐‐ Brendon Urie

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
‐‐ Billy Crystal

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
‐‐ Lauryn Hill

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.
‐‐ Bill Callahan

From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.
‐‐ Jason Aaron

From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.
‐‐ Martin Rees

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
‐‐ Francois Rabelais

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
‐‐ Margot Asquith

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
‐‐ Carl Safina

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
‐‐ Lucretius

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
‐‐ Tom Araya

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
‐‐ Alice Morse Earle

From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
‐‐ James Jeans

From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications.
‐‐ Jeff Fitzgerald

From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the December issue of almost any general-interest magazine regularly featured a holiday horror or two.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.
‐‐ Robert Pozen

From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.
‐‐ Steven Rattner

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America.
‐‐ Louis Finkelstein

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
‐‐ Edward Thorndike

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.
‐‐ Edward Grey

From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.
‐‐ Chuck Todd

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
‐‐ Amartya Sen

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.
‐‐ Carol Loomis

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.
‐‐ Julie Gold

From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.
‐‐ Helena Christensen

From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.
‐‐ Steven Weber

From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.
‐‐ Selman Waksman