“Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.” FirstsCareTermHumilityBuildingCapableReformHealth CareTraitsMandatesHealth Care Reform Author:Ron Fournier
“I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.” ThinkingFirstsKindMeanStoriesUseTermPerfectDependsScriptsDefinitionsTime Travel Author:Rian Johnson
“He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.” FirstsTermResponsibilityEconomySuccessfulEconomicCustomersCorporationsBeing SuccessfulEthicalFrameworkShareholders Author:Lee R. Raymond
“Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.” FirstsWellsTwoTermTwo ThingsQuarrelsContending Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.” FirstsSoulFeelingsBodySpiritualSpiritualityEnergyUnderstandingTermHigherIntellectualIntuitionIntellectGuidanceHigher PowerSpiritual AwarenessSpiritual Energy Author:Christiane Northrup
“If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.” IfsWorldWantFirstsHumansHeartWarMotivationalTermRealizingNaturalJusticeEnemySkinsMinoritiesWandsRascalsNatural Enemies Author:Alan Watts
“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.” WorldFirstsLongTwoTermHalfSupportEconomyLandCenturyExampleDemandLosingThirdsTwentiesRateProductivityForestsTraditionalDesertDawnLong TermYieldDestroyingContinuingAgricultureShrinksEcosystemsUnderminingSupport SystemsSurpassingDeterioratingTopsoil Author:Stuart L. Hart
“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.” YearsFirstsDoneWantedActorsLanguageTermActingUniversityItalianAcademicExamForeign Language Author:Nick Offerman
“One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.” KnowsFirstsLittlesFacesCertainNextTermLosesChallengesAmountCongressCampaignsAdministrationMotiveSuspectsVotersIdentification Author:Roy Blunt
“As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".” WorldFirstsHumansSeemsChristianLastsCertainValuesTermReligiousResultsMoralCenturyElementsIdealsSightStressTendenciesMoral ValuesIncline Book:The Divine Milieu Source: The Divine Milieu
“The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.” FirstsStatesValuesTermWrittenParticularExpressionMoralityFunctionAbsolutesJustifyAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentProtectivePropriety Author:William O. Douglas