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“The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.”

Ifs Needs Should Firsts Home Dies Drink Husband Cat Convinced Checks Cooks My Husband Coming Home Corpses Coke Refrigerators Ovens

Author:Jenny Lawson

“To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.”

Should Firsts Wells Looks Kind Song Insight Pops Plenty Pop Song

Author:Jason Newsted

“I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.”

Thinking Should Firsts Important Film Worst Trajectory

Author:Kevin Pollak

“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.”

Should Firsts Social Security Benefits Gains Increase Impact Workers Income Consumers Typical Social Security Inflation American Workers

Author:Steven Rattner

“It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.”

Should Firsts Desire Path Our Lives Buddhism Should Have Sexuality Path Of Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.”

Should Firsts Difficult Party Pieces Directors Bases Appearance Impression Chosen Conductor Containing First Date

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.”

Should Firsts Government Asks President Approach Surrender Brutal Bin Laden Taliban Osama Bin Laden

Author:Barney Frank

“A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.”

World Should Firsts America Effort Capacity Threat Focused Nuclear Priorities Dramatic Iran Nuclear Iran

Author:Mitt Romney

“It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.”

Should Writing Firsts May Students Thirds Disappointed

Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.”

Ifs Should Firsts Jobs Class Middle Cost Labor Middle Class Why Not Volunteer Ceo

Author:Lou Dobbs

“He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light is but limited - and the illuminating grace of the Spirit abide in him. The first by means of practice trains the flesh in virtue, the second illuminates the intellect so that it chooses above all else companionship with wisdom; and through wisdom it destroys the strongholds of evil and pulls down 'all the self-esteem that exalts itself against the knowledge of God' (II Cor. 10:5).”

“You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Shows

Author:Al Franken

“I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.”

Feels Should Trying Firsts Wells Two Book Real Reading Enjoy Morning Figures Months Businessman Kindles Two Months

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”

Life Should Firsts Ends Change Advantage Should Have Faults Objections Correcting

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Should Firsts Looks Mean One Thing Color Ought Importance Passionate Allowing Rejoice Dwelling Anything In Life

Author:C. J. Mahaney

“I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.”

Should Firsts Political Views Rights Bills University Seeking Opponents Faculty Professors Academic Provision Bill Of Rights Firing Leftists Political View

Author:David Horowitz

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.”

Should Firsts Happens Speak Christianity Teach Believer Pagan Gentiles

Author:Pope Francis

“Effect should come first. Method second.”

Should Firsts Effects Method

Author:Fred Kaps

“The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads - in fact, every woman who intends to have a baby will be thrilled with the empowering message here.”

Should Firsts Facts Baby Messages Treasure Empowering Pregnancy Pregnant Pregnant Women

Author:Christiane Northrup

“The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.”

People Should Firsts Hard Church Cities Hell Priorities Joints Go To Hell

Author:David Shibley

“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'”

World Should Firsts Country Today Winning Bits Animal Race Five Four Feet Lucky Equal Thirds Horse Shoes Ran Ducks Fifth Horseshoes

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?”

Ifs Should Firsts Shows Kids Easy Example Divorce Civility

Author:Dawn French

“If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Firsts Spirit Jesus Can Do Born Teach Teacher Holy Standards Statements Holy Spirit Savior Sermons Born Again Sermon On The Mount

Book:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“I've slogged like crazy to get where I am. And those who think it's just my body that got me where I am, they should take a look at the others who have rushed in after me. They haven't gone beyond their first feverish film.”

Thinking Should Firsts Looks Body Film Gone Crazy Havens

Author:Mallika Sherawat

“At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.”

People Should Firsts Body Natural Saws Groups First Time

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”

Feels Should Firsts Sometimes Watches Morning Husband Window Wave Awakening Lakes My Husband

Book:Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters

Source: Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters

“I believe that a country's first duty is to set its own house in order; and having set its own house in order, it can contribute better to the community of the world. Instead of being a weak link, it should be a strong link.”

World Should Firsts Believe Country Order House Strong I Believe Community Duty Weak Links Cooperation

Author:George Cadle Price

“I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.”

Should Firsts Believe Force I Believe Social Century Majors Concern Twenties Environmental Corporations Very Strong

Author:Bill Ford

“All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.”

Should Firsts All Things Toil

Author:Alfred the Great

“I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.”

Should Firsts Teach Taught Offers Beggar Beggary

Author:William Shakespeare

“It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.”

People Ifs Way Should Firsts Dream Suffering Trouble Sacrifice Truth Is Blessing Spread Wide Trials Accompany

Book:Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

Source: Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

“The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.”

Should Firsts Form Sound Voice Opinion Judgment Dare Awe Echoes Idle Rumours

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.”

Should Firsts Believe Done First Time Conservative Political Jokes

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.”

Should Firsts Humans Felt Interest Human Beings Interesting Paint Chairs

Author:Edvard Munch

“California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.”

Ifs World Should Firsts Looks States Can Do Rooms Race Fine Balance Majority California Hopeful Microcosm

Author:William J. Clinton

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.”

Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Ends Stories Used Lying My Own Written Subjects Wall Gun Concerned Crosses Chapters Hanging On

Author:Anton Chekhov

“We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.”

People Should Years Firsts Process Goal Realizing Institutions Savior Succession

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.”

Should Firsts Children Able Youth Waffles

Author:Nancy Mitford

“But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay”

Ifs Should Firsts Romance Method Dust Should I

Author:John Buchan

“Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.”

Ifs Giving Should Firsts Energy Difficult Lists Things To Do Procrastination Items Momentum Frogs Procrastinating

Author:Brian Tracy

“In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.”

Should Firsts Used Emotion Expression Merit Consideration Originality

Author:Fujiwara no Teika

“And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?”

Should Firsts Artist Conditions Bears Agree Sake Burning Acknowledge Flames Bows

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.”

Should Firsts Order Loses Study Fashion Sight Moved Impression Orderly First Impression Cramps

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.”

Should Firsts Two Book Literature Views Emotion Study Students Method Point Of View Thoughts And Emotions Workmanship

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”

Way Should Firsts Made Artist Felt Simple Understood Simplicity Details Spectators Superfluous Elimination Beholder Motifs Simple Ways

Author:Alfred Sisley

“When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.”

Should Firsts Pieces Building Serious Block Navy Casual Wardrobe Building Blocks Blazers

Author:Derren Brown

“We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.”

Thinking Feels Should Firsts Believe Pain Lasts Joy

Book:Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself

Source: Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself

“Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.”

Should Years Firsts Looks Said Years Ago Originals Ugly Originality

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.”

Source: The Sea Around Us

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