First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won! — Donald Freed Copy Share Image
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw. — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Some people say 'Why is a football coach concerned?' I explained I'm an American first and all Americans should care about justice. — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! … The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we react to life from the head without joining forces with the heart, it can lead us into childish, inelegant behavior… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
You okay?" "Fine." "Your heart's beating really fast." "Gee, thanks. That's very comforting that you can hear it." He smiled, and it… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Of course there are many films about the period of Fascism itself but I don't know of any about that period beforehand.… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
First of all, there are Persians and Arabs. The fact they share a religion, a Shiite religion, does not mean that they're… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot… — Jean Amery Copy Share Image
When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image