Firsts Quotes - Page 274

When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.

When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.

There are few things more disconcerting than realizing the first date you thought went so well was in fact a dud.

We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.

'DWTS' came to America and I was ranked first in the U.S. When I got the call, I turned them down. That's why I missed the first season because I felt like I was still seriously competing and it would have been distracting. They called me again for the 2nd season and I said yes. I wanted to see what it was like to do something different and here we are.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.