Quotes of: First-lady Keyword

In prayer, God doesn't guarantee the answer you want, but He does guarantee the answer you need.

Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

Eleanor & Park

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

The Eternal Wonder

We're a symphony--our limbs and lips and skin making up the instruments, working together to create a beautiful piece of music.

Fifty First Times: A New Adult Anthology

...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again.

The First Circle

We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.

The First and Last Freedom

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

The First Phone Call from Heaven

Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?" "Yes, I suppose I do," Epstein said. "But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.

The First Immortal

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Faust: First Part

Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shores To clasp the bosom that my soul adores, Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.

Faust: First Part

Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.

The First Salute

I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.

Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary, the First Complete Edition

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

The Hunger Games

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

Busman's Honeymoon

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

Rafe tugged her closer before she could trip over a gravestone. "Damn it, woman. Devil take your wagon! You fail to grasp the severity of this situation.

Bite at First Sight

Rafael possessed unfathomable strength. His speed defied the laws of nature...and his bite, good God, his bite. How could something so macabre feel so pleasurable?

Bite at First Sight

Just like a butterfly, I had sprung from my cocoon for the first time. For my risk, I was rewarded with Jacob Bennett." - Laylla Jonson (Beneath the Blossom Tree)

Beneath the Blossom Tree