The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.
New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.
It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.
God first, family second, career third
The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract. There's no kind of, "Oh, let's do Peru," or "Let's do pleats," you know?
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.
Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.
I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.
I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake―and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.
Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.