Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

'School for Wives' is Moliere's first step toward grand comedy, but he still has one foot in commedia.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

Work experience for many is their first taste of work and an essential first step into the jobs market.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

For me, taking care of your health is the first step towards empowerment whether you're a man or a woman.

My mother says that I have abnormal capacity to tolerate pain. It's the first step to win over adversaries.

The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

I don't know what I'm going to do with my law degree. Hopefully I'll get the law degree - that's the first step.

The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

Everyone deserves the chance to make their own choices. The first step on this pathway is experiencing the working world.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

When the show starts, I am in my SpongeBob stance, and I walk like SpongeBob, and the first step that I take, I am SpongeBob.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

Historically, almost every cookbook and chef have taught that when you're cooking a piece of meat, the first step should be searing.

At certain moments, both the WEEE Act and the First Step Act appeared doomed to dead end in partisan gridlock and procedural hurdles.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

My ultimate goal was always that I want to be known as one of the greatest of all time. The first step was obviously to be UFC champion.

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Disclosure of the full monthly costs that consumers pay is the first step to ensuring that cable companies stop taking advantage of consumers.

Going to the doctors - for me that was quite brave, taking that first step. That was a bit scary, saying that I wanted to go on anti-depressants.

I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Together, the WEEE Act and the First Step Act represented two rare examples of Republicans and Democrats coming together to make meaningful change.

Ensuring guns are out of the reach of children and holding those accountable who are irresponsible is the first step in reducing firearm accidents.

A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

The tech community has taken the first step by recognizing that diversity is a strength and realizing that many of them have to work on their culture.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

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