“These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.” FirstsKindFactsGovernmentAgeLawCertainFourSubjectsJudgingKingsThirdsFunctionTyrannyHeroicFourthPerpetualDictatorRoyaltyMonarchyBarbariansHereditary Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.” FirstsThreeFourEnlightenmentBuddhistDiscipleCosmology Author:Frederick Lenz
“So, Wesley Clark is running for president. Pretty amazing guy. Four star general, first in his class at West Point, supreme commander of NATO, saw combat in Vietnam, won the bronze star, silver star, the purple heart for being wounded in battle. See, I'm no political expert, but that sounds pretty good next to choking on a pretzel, falling off a scooter and dropping the dog.” FirstsHeartRunningPoliticalGuyFallNextStarsSoundPresidentClassSawsFourDogBattleWestSupremeExpertsSilverCombatVietnamWoundedPurpleDroppingCommandersChokeNatoBronzeFalling OffPretzelsWest PointScootersPurple Heart Author:Jay Leno
“My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.” PeopleFirstsWellsMeanFourWeekTreatedPleasantPermitRefugeeArrivalsResidenceNetherlands Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.” YearsFirstsWellsPlayCertainFourKneesOperationsNflFour YearsDrsSurgeryJetJanuaryTrailblazing Author:Joe Namath
“The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.” PeopleFirstsUsedFourStageFrontsFirst TimeNervousSkatesWeird Things Author:Albert Hammond, Jr.
“I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.” MenFirstsBitsTechnologyPiecesFourRocksCenturyBalanceTwentiesTablesCaughtLegsWelcomeRestaurantsDevicesBack And ForthNineteenth CenturyOne Piece Author:Leonard Susskind
“When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.” WritingFirstsIdeasUsedSongStuffSidesFourSingingTrackProductionsMelodyVehicleLyrical Author:M. Ward
“I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.” FeelsYearsFirstsBigsOpportunityClassFourPlayerFansTenTownsBlessedEightCoachesLeagueFour YearsConferencesFirst ClassGreat Fans Author:Steve Alford
“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.” YearsFirstsFactsFourMajorsPaidLifetimeConservativeDebtBillionsReformBudgetsWelfareBalancedEntitlementPaid Off Author:Newt Gingrich
“When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems to get better and better. I've had the honour of playing alongside him. The four years I've played alongside him, he is the best player, one of the first names on the manager's teamsheet. He is just a complete legend. There are not enough players like Paul Scholes around any more for my liking. 'Legend' is over-used but this guy is right up there with the very best.” YearsFirstsLooksEnoughSeemsUsedGuyGamesNamesFourPlayerTwentiesManagersGet BetterHonourLegendsFour YearsThis GuyTrophiesBest PlayersScholesPaul Scholes Author:Dwight Yorke
“I think people are having less of an investment in relationships. It used to be that you meet someone, you go on four or five dates and you gradually get to know them and trust them at the same time, and you learn a little bit about them. Now, it could be one date - maybe even before that first date - you go on Facebook have all the information.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsLittlesUsedBitsFiveFourInformationGoes OnLittle BitInvestmentUsed To BeFirst Date Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.” FirstsEndsKidsGoalLevelsFourFrontsStandingOvercomingShySwimSwimming Author:Summer Sanders
“The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.” FirstsScienceExistenceFourModelsJokesMathematicsMathematicalSurprisingAxiomsEuclid Author:John Allen Paulos
“Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.” IfsNeedsYearsFirstsTwoMomentsSchoolLawLostClearFourViolenceMonthsMembersGunShotsYears AgoDecidedRefuseTwo YearsSenateBrutalBlankNeed A ChangeUnthinkableGun ViolenceTwo Years Ago Author:Gabrielle Giffords
“Campaign analysts say that Dean has produced the most innovative web site in this year's presidential race. I particularly like today's blog, which consisted of the sentence 'I hate myself,' typed four billion times. In Dean's case, this may be the first instance where the actually entity represented by the web site has crashed more often than the site did.” YearsFirstsMayTodayHateRaceCasesFourI HateSentencesBillionsCampaignsInstancePresidentialEntitySiteInnovativeBlogsDeanAnalystsHate MyselfI Hate Myself Author:Dennis Miller
“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.” IfsFirstsKindBookStatesStoriesLosesUnitedUnited StatesNovelFourHeroOvercomingMurderVolumePublishersHeroinesSpiritualism Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“I ... received a few hugs and dutiful pecks on the cheek at bedtime, even a couple of 'thank-yous' thrown in for good measure. But I'd truly love for someone to explain why the father of my children can simply walk into the house, put down his briefcase, grunt 'Hi kids - howyadoing,' and all four offspring nearly hyperventilate trying to be the first to get close to him. They are crazy about this man, and all he has to do is walk into a room and breathe.” MenTryingFirstsChildrenKidsFatherHouseWalksRoomsFourCrazyCoupleBreatheMy ChildrenThrownCheeksHugOffspringBedtimeGruntBriefcases Author:Becky Freeman
“My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.” FirstsShowsFourDoorsCarTvsTv ShowsGreySlateGreat DayBmw Author:Rebecca Mader
“The hardest thing was going through different stages of weight loss. At the beginning, it was easy to take off the weight with exercise and eating less but then you reach a point where 90 per cent of the weight loss is achieved purely through reducing your calorie intake. My goal was to lose four pounds per week. That worked well for the first few months but then things got tricky.” FirstsWellsDifferentEasyGoalLosesLossFourWeekStageMonthsExerciseEatingWeightHardestHardest ThingWeight LossReducingTrickyCaloriesEating Less Author:Matthew McConaughey
“I owe a quenchless debt to him who bade me seize my fate And hang it on the faith that I to it was adequate For when he said -you're on your own- and sauntered on away I knew that here, in four short words, was youth-s first judgment day Not wit to learn, not test of skill, not pride to satisfy, But will to walk down life in faith that life is theirs who try.” TryingFirstsSaidLife IsWalksFourFateYouthPrideSkillsJudgmentTestsDebtWitAviationAdequateJudgment DayShort Words Author:Gill Robb Wilson
“My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.” YearsFirstsLittlesI CanHomeAgeYoungThreeMemoriesFourFeetBallsFour YearsYoung AgeNeighbourhoods Author:Lionel Messi
“It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingYearsFirstsLittlesWantedJobsFilmThreeSidesChanceStruggleFourAliveDoorsGive MeScriptsPushingEditorsFour YearsNo MoneyStaying AliveBangingCameramanGive Me A Chance Author:George Lucas
“There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over. Those three things lead to the fourth pillar which is the hope and dream that tomorrow is going to be better. Without that you have not much at all.” FirstsHomeDreamThreeGoalFourTomorrowSafeUltimateThirdsFourthThree ThingsStarting OverPillarsLife GoalUltimate GoalHopes And DreamsSafe Places Author:Bill Walton
“The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.” FirstsArtTwoIdeasMightTogetherGrowsHalfPiecesFourCuttingTreeStrangeSeedsApplesPears Author:Yoko Ono
“Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.” FirstsPhilosophyLeadershipBusinessLeaderFourProfitEmployeeExecutivesBusiness LeadersFirst Things FirstPut First Things First Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.
“Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.” FirstsChildrenIndividualGrowthPayFamilyFourCuttingTaxesRateImprovementIncomeCodeBoardsJunkTax CutsFiddleExemption Author:Steve Forbes
“I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.” FirstsInterestDealsFourPaintingDecidedPainter Author:John Dyer
“I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this piece when I was working on The Jacket, and we'd so fallen in love with him that we thought he was the only person that should direct this! We wrote poems for him, we sent him champagne and cakes. Four years later he finally read it.” ThinkingShouldYearsFirstsPersonsFilmPiecesFourDirectExtraordinaryFallenMakersCakeFour YearsJacketsChampagne Author:Keira Knightley
“I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.” FirstsJobsNightNextFourWorstQuittingRestaurantsThievesNext DayI QuitDensJanitor Author:Wendell Pierce
“At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.” YearsFirstsProblemWinningFourYears AgoFour YearsTournaments Author:Cheryl Hines
“The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.” MindFirstsRealSpiritTeacherFourTeachingPersonalityPurePerceptionEssenceThirdsBuddhistRelyInterpretationFourthSuperficialRelianceJudgmentalReal Wisdom Author:Gautama Buddha
“Well first of all I was nine weeks pregnant at the time and no one knew it. So it was - it had a whole other meaning for me not just because I had to let the dress out, you know, every few days before the actual day. But, you know, because that was the, you know, more important than anything else that was going on in my life. But in terms of actually winning I think I had been nominated four or five times before then. And every one of my co-stars had won up until that point.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsImportantWholeWinningStarsTermFiveFourWeekDressesNinePregnant Author:Debra Messing
“Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?” WorldFirstsHumansHappensRunningEarthThreeWishNaturalHuman BeingsSpaceNumbersFiveFourTelevisionOughtProgramIncreaseExtraordinaryNotionSizePopulationCleverFactorsDestroyedFiniteThree TimesNatural World Author:David Attenborough
“I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go."” ThinkingFirstsPersonsSaidCommunityHoursFourProudOrdinaryOkayJewExtremesWitnessFirst PersonOrdinary LifeSerpentJehovahAmish Author:A. J. Jacobs
“It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.” FirstsLongMatterFourTablesLegsFinished Book:ABC of Reading Source: ABC of Reading
“I'm looking forward to Phoenix. I ran well there last year in the Nationwide Series, and it was one of the tracks I made four Sprint Cup starts at last season. In the Cup race last year, I had a good run going for it being my first time there in a Cup car, and unfortunately got damage from an accident. It's not a restrictor plate race, so this will be the first time this season that I will run a lot of laps in practice. It's also the first race for the new qualifying format, so it will be interesting to see how that works out. Overall, I just want to have a solid run in the BRANDT Chevy.” WantYearsFirstsWellsMadeRunningLastsInterestingRacePracticeFourCarFirst TimeSeasonsSeriesTrackWork OutAccidentsCupsRanDamageLast YearPlatesLooking ForwardLapFormatPhoenixSprintGoing For ItChevyQualifying Author:Justin Allgaier
“You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.” PeopleYearsFirstsChildrenYoungThreeFourPersonalityFour YearsSensibilityYoung Children Author:Joe Frank
“The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio.” YearsFirstsWantedSongPiecesFourWonderfulListeningFirst TimeRadioBoxesFour YearsAmazing ThingsRailroads Author:Johnny Cash
“I have an older sister and my mom would dress us up identically, so in all of our pictures, we're in these giant pink, poufy outfits. I remember when I was four or five, we all went to a theme park and I had to go to the bathroom but couldn't hold it in anymore. Let's just say, I had to buy a brand new outfit! But that moment was the first time I remember ever wearing something different from my sister at an event. It was my breakthrough moment when I decided I was never going to match my sister again!” FirstsDifferentMomentsRememberFiveFourEventsMomFirst TimeDecidedDressesMy MomBrandsGiantsParksThemeThat MomentMy SisterBathroomRemember WhenBreakthroughBrand NewOutfitsOlder SisterTheme Parks Author:Analeigh Tipton
“We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.” YearsFirstsHas BeensSaidWarHardStatesHomeAbleFightingUnitedEnemyMillionsUnited StatesFourSixDefeatTerrorGuaranteesAlsAl QaedaWar On TerrorGuarantees That Author:Dick Cheney
“We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.” KnowsFirstsMadeHardFilmChurchAttitudeFourWonderfulModernMembersAtmosphereFeaturesWonderful ThingsGeorgiaBaptistsModern DayChurch MembersAlbany Author:Alex Kendrick
“People are looking at possibly doing some documentaries and also we have the first four films that will stay out there for the years to come. So, yeah, Sherwood Pictures will be around and my brother and I are certainly supporters of that. We can't wait to see what God does not only locally there at the church but what he has for us down the road as well.” PeopleYearsFirstsWellsDoeFilmWaitingChurchFourBrotherYeahMy BrotherSupporterDocumentariesDown The Road Author:Alex Kendrick
“For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word.... I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time” FirstsWholeGivenStuffRecordsFourListeningTenKissingEgoDirtyBowieDirty Words Author:Bernard Fanning
“For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.” WritingYearsFirstsFourProduceProfitEnterpriseFour YearsWriting Music Author:Peter Drucker
“Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.” PeopleFirstsShowsThreeFourStageWalkingLateMercyAlbumsCrowdsReleaseSurfingSan Francisco Author:Tom Araya
“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.” IfsKnowsWantShouldFirstsImportantIdeasHomeRememberLanguageFiveFourLandMinutesFoolLettersShould HaveSentencesDamnI Want YouEnglish LanguageParagraphFood LoveImportant Words Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“...consumers do not buy one brand of soap, or coffee, or detergent. They have a repertory of four or five brands, and move from one to another. They almost never buy a brand which has not been admitted to their repertory during its first year on the market.” YearsFirstsMovingFiveFourCoffeeBrandsConsumersSoap Author:David Ogilvy
“It's easy to leave people wanting more after the first episode, but it's hard to leave people wanting more after the 24th episode. And it's my job, more than anybody else's, to keep that in mind. One season, in TV terms, is nothing. You need to hit it for three or four seasons, and then you're doing well, in TV terms. Then, you've done your job.” PeopleNeedsMindFirstsWellsHardDoneJobsThreeEasyTermFourTvsSeasonsEpisodesWanting MoreFour Seasons Author:Bruno Heller