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First Quotes by Saul Bellow
- The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.
- For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no…
- A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would…
- I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make…
- You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
- But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I…
- When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
- Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out—a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your…
- Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an…
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong