We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined… — Strabo Copy Share Image
The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get.… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Take it off first, soldier." He looked at her suspiciously. "Take what off?" "Your clothes. Entertain the troops." "My clothes?" He frowned.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
There is only one basic desire that motivates the spiritual seeker-to make the experience of God, of divine bliss and joy, the… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
The first chapters of the Bible tell us of the sin of man. The guilt of that sin had rested upon every… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the… — Mari Sandoz Copy Share Image
To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point,… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated… — Gladys Aylward Copy Share Image
If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew… — April Parker Jones Copy Share Image
The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He… — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were… — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
[Ronald] Reagan talked to people across the world and he was very successful in communicating and treating people with dignity and respect,… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image