The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
“Obviously it won’t do to love somebody and enjoy that person’s company but then, when things between you get difficult, to abandon… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“Donating blood, giving money to the Red Cross or volunteering with a relief organization would all be far more beneficial than praying… — Atheist Republic Copy Share Image
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“The mistake too many people make, it seems, is either not having the plan in the first place or once they do,… — Denise Shull Copy Share Image
“In the first place, John’s work is a prophetic apocalypse in that it communicates a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
To know that anybody would go out and buy my jersey or get my jersey as a gift, that's something I don't… — Justin Tucker Copy Share Image
“If you don't want to have your authority questioned, then you have no right to be in authority in the first place” — Anonomyus Copy Share Image
The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it.… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Male, female, gay, straight, legal, illegal, country of origin—who cares? You can either cook an omelet or you can’t. You can either… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“I know you don’t owe me a damn thing,” she said at length, “but I’m going to ask a favor anyway.” “Ask,”… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Unbecoming or not, I dare say that if a harmonica chases away a suitor, he was no suitor at all in the… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
“The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“What makes humans valuable in the first place? Science can't answer that question because science deals only with things we can measure… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
The way I see it is: if you choose not to play football that is a good thing, because it means you… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In the first place your anger will spoil your public image, which in turn will have an adverse effect upon others. — Mak_786 Correction By Jacobusmaximus Copy Share Image
...that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“The rector of a parish has much to do.—In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tythes as may… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her friend who treated her maid badly was not a wicked person. She behaved well towards her family and she had always… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Growing up is about being wise enough to detach from people that never should of been attached in the first place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“This is extremely significant. Knowing something of when the Pentateuch came to be, even generally, affects our understanding of why it was… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“If you have to justify an action, you probably shouldn’t have done it in the first place.” — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
“questions which none seemed able to answer :How is it that white folks have everything and we have nothing? Slavery-how and why… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
Being on tour together and being constantly with the same few people means we now think the same things are funny, we… — Gym Class Heroes Copy Share Image
“I've never read of exorcism curing anyone of autism, and according to what I've read about real exorcisms as stated by Roman… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“The Law was given so that there would be a standard to break in the first place, and man, becoming convinced of… — Jeff Turner Copy Share Image
