No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.
A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.
The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the first priority.
Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.
I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and. . . well. . . it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess.
When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she has.
The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second
The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.
Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.