Quotes of: First-amendment Keyword

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

Adam Green

[Appearing for the first time as the undead] Jack: Can I have a piece of toast?

An American Werewolf in London

If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.

Amit Kalantri

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Andrew Mitchell

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

Stan Slap

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

Life

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

Zig Ziglar

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

James Huneker

Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until t...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brigand beside him, recorded by Luke (23.43). 'Today,' he said, 'you will be with me in paradise.' 'Paradise' is not the final destination; it is a beauti...

For All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Everyone says your first time should be magical. You should be in love. You should feel safe. Because you can't go back once you've done it. That will always be your first time. Years later this is what I'll remember as my first time. That inflated s...

Easy

Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery...

Fraulein Schmidt And Mr Anstruther

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the brea...

The Fountainhead

Today you had a very important lesson on taking punches. A lot of people will tell you that the first thing you have to learn is how to take a punch. But I believe the first thing you should know is that you can take one and survive. A punch won't ki...

The Berlin Boxing Club

I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest...

Blood Memory

The two studied one another for what seemed hours, neither saying a word. Jaden’s first inclination was to yell and demand his freedom, but something held him back. Here was a new man, and a new set of mind games. He waited for the old man to speak...

Jaden Baker

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked si...

Miracles