Quotes 661 till 680 of 1835.
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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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.
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
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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.
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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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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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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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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.
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
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Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.
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In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
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In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
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