Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.
Question authority; but, raise your hand first.
but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.
At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time.
We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.
. . . there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.
Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!
Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
It is very difficult to apply the old Indian adage 'Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins,' unless you get out of your own moccasins first.
We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally.
Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.
