In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.
First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'
I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.
So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.
At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.
Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
