The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days. . . demonstrated that core character over and over again.
The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.
I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.
It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!
There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.
If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence, that you are one with it, all fear of death disappears because there is nobody to die inside you. In the first place there is nobody at all, existence lives through you.