Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 621 till 640 of 1725.

  • Ben Shapiro If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Samuel Butler If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Alexander Haig If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bee Wilson If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bruce Kent If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.
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  • Alphonse Karr If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Burnie Burns If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Robert Schumann If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
    Robert Schumann
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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  • Carrie P. Meek If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Anita Roddick If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Brisbane If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
    Arthur Brisbane
    American newspaper editor (1864 - 1936)
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  • Allan Carr If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • William Law If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Brendan Fraser If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Richard A. Nelson If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.
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  • Bill Nunn If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.
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  • Wendell Phillips If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Carl Sagan If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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