If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations do not have title to their lands because they weren't Christians. That the first Christian Nations to discover an area of heathen lands has the absolute title. This doctrine should be withdrawn and renounced to establish a new basis for relationship between indigenous peoples and other peoples of the world.
First rule about vampires, don`t believe anything you read.
Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.
What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.
My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing.
What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.
Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
At the first meeting of the newly constituted Warren Commission, [former CIA Director] Allen Dulles handed out copies of a book to help define the ideological parameters he proposed for the Commission's forthcoming work. American assassinations were different from European ones, he told the Commission. European assassinations were the work of conspiracies, whereas American assassins acted alone.
I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured. And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.
Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.