Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

You don't mess with janitors, first of all, they have like 40 keys, and 1 is to a closet you don't want to be inside of.

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

I could be a comedian. I could be a gangster. I could play all of those parts, even for the first time... I'm versatile.

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

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

On my first day shooting '13 Going on 30,' Jennifer Garner had yellow tulips sent to my trailer. I'll never forget them.

Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

I used to pick up lettering jobs when I was first starting in the business like in between if I couldn't get other work.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

The first thing to remember: There's no substitute for cold steel. They do not like it up 'em, they DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

You will never experience the fullness of joy you were created to know until Jesus Christ has first place in every area.

I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.

When I meet a beautiful girl, the first thing I say is 'will you marry me?'. The second thing I say is, 'how do you do?'

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

I was serious about retiring the first time, but the first week I was home my wife had SO many chores to do I went back.

Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

I didn't expect myself to be perfect my first season because no one ever pulled me aside and said "This is how you walk."

First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

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