“With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.” PeopleYearsFirstsHumansPlayWould BeAbleHuman BeingsIssuesTakenInvolvedProjectsImpactSci FiExploringHuman ExperienceReflectingEnvelopesSci Fi Film Author:Mary McDonnell
“In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.” PeopleMenNeedsFirstsAmericaTakenEuropeIncreaseSelfishAtmosphereDependencyPersonal Power Author:Pope Francis
“LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.” WayWritingTryingFirstsSometimesTodayJoyOpportunityTakenLove YouBecomingFitCircumstancesLettersTransformationEmbraceGentleLife ChangingAbundanceLove YourselfFirst LoveRemindersBeing In LoveLove LetterOld WaysLove Of My LifeLove Yourself FirstChange Is GoodWriting LoveBecoming New Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsDoneHandsRememberSpaceTakenCommunicationEverydayIncrediblesGrantedHatsStationsSatellitesTaken For GrantedOdysseyGpsSpace ShuttleBeen There Done That Author:David Weber
“Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.” FirstsMemoriesChanceGrowing UpTakenGrowingBrotherWaveMy BrotherShoreCheerSurfingCatchingSydneyBest Memories Author:Markus Zusak
“If you believe, then you have already taken the first step towards your achievement.” IfsFirstsBelieveStepsTakenAchievementFirst StepsIf You BelieveAlready Taken Author:Rickson Gracie
“We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.” WorldFirstsMayArtEarthTurnsEasyHalfSupportTakenOur LivesSadnessCenturyCarMadResponseProsperityIntuitionEaseAppropriateWorks Of ArtAestheticConsumerismUnbelievableSculptureHammersOverconsumptionEasy ThingsBingeBiodegradable Author:Bill McKibben
“If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.” IfsWorldGivingFirstsMayHas BeensWarGovernmentAmericaPresidentMoralPrinciplesTakenConstitutionAffairLipsObligationWar Of The WorldsSubstitutesOfficersWorld War IiWorld War IArbitraryOathSanctionsPrecedentMoral ObligationLip ServiceConstitutional Government Author:Charles A. Beard
“Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.” FirstsIdeasTakenOriginalsGrantedTaken For GrantedOriginal Ideas Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.” WayGivingFirstsFeelingsMy OwnResponsibilityTakenBirthFirst TimeGuiltyMy Own LifeFeeling Guilty Author:Gloria Steinem
“If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.” IfsFirstsChildrenSportsQualityTakenIf I CouldMore TimeQuality Time Author:Lee Trevino
“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.” TryingFirstsFactsFoundTakenImagineEuropePerformancesLondonNakedShockedStatuesUlyssesHawthorne Book:The Last Novel Source: The Last Novel
“The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.” FirstsMomentsYoungArtistTakenIndependenceInsecurityGood ArtGood ArtistYoung Artists Author:Jeff Koons
“Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.” FirstsFoundTakenVictoryPromiseProveDeliverance Author:Rees Howells
“I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.” ThinkingFirstsSometimesBigsStepsTakenHardestFirst Steps Author:Steve Jobs
“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.” IfsMenYearsFirstsUseUsedThreeHouseGivenTakenFieldsReturnGardenClaimsPossessionOwnersThree Years Author:Hammurabi
“I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.” WantFeelsFirstsUsedThreeBitsTakenDrugEssentialsTablesDinnerAlcoholFeel GoodCardsUsed To BeLuxurySmokeLunchCigaretteReally GreatPatchesJunkieGumGreat DayI Feel GoodNicotineCigs Author:Johnny Depp