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“He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed me, were as follows: 'Well, Dr. Weismann, we have as good as beaten them already.' I...thanked him for his constant support for the Zionist course. 'You were standing at the cradle of this enterprise.' I said to him, 'and hopefully you will live to see that we have succeeded.' Adding that after the war we would build up a state of three to four million Jews in Palestine, whereupon he replied: 'Yes, go ahead, I am full in agreement with this idea.'”

Firsts Wells Said Ideas War States Three Courses Millions Support Four Standing Constant Jew Hopefully Enterprise Agreement Drs Beaten Palestine Cradle Zionist

Author:Chaim Weizmann

“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.”

Firsts Facts Eye Science Order Fall Lines Saws Fit First Time Garden Standing Chemistry Transformed Schemes Recipes Jungle Dutch Boyhood Haphazard Periodic Table Medley

Book:The Search

Source: The Search

“When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.”

Men World Firsts Made Said Lying Blessing Standing Glasses Riches Contracts

Author:George Herbert

“When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."”

Needs Firsts Heaven Lines Saws Fine Standing Mark Standing There

Author:Blake Lively

“Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.”

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

“You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.”

Firsts Standing Inner Peace Evaluate

Author:Aruna Roy

“The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.”

Firsts Running Forget Saws Hair Pride Proud Husband First Time Standing Hills My Husband Never Forget Breeze Hair Blowing

Author:Jean Carroll

“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.”

“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.”

Firsts Ends Kids Goal Levels Four Fronts Standing Overcoming Shy Swim Swimming

Author:Summer Sanders

“Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.”

“There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man standing alongside the road, shouts, «Where are you going?» and the first man replies, «I don't know! Ask the horse!» This is also our story. We are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless.”

Knows Men Firsts Important Stories Asks Energy He Man Habit Standing Horse Circles Riding Pulling Powerless Another Man Galloping

Book:The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.”

“But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.”

Firsts Moments Would Be Waiting Lines Forever Fine Prove Standing First Love Prove To Me Magical Moments

Author:Goapele

“Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.”

Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

“It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.”

Thinking Way Firsts Long Stories Would Be Wanted Perfect Cutting Happened Standing Aliens France Long Way Very Romantic Long Story

Author:Ridley Scott

“If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Persons Stills Important Use Mouths Standing Tricks First Person Tick Trajectory Standing Still

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!”

“It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.”

Firsts Earth Standing Edges Cliffs Making Up Standing On The Edge

Author:Peter Carey

“All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and if you don't want to be there, it is going to show. Nothing you dreamed about is going to happen if you forget why you started in the first place. You have to skate with you heart. Before anyone can believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.”

Ifs Want Firsts Believe Heart Shows Happens Hours Forget Standing Believe In Yourself Believe In You Skates Skater Ovation

Author:Kurt Browning

“I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.”

People Ifs Firsts Looks Earth Huge Praying Thousand First Time Standing Miles Look Up Thousand Miles Donuts Kneeling Groveling

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.”

Writing Firsts Standing Historical Secure

Author:Winston Churchill

“Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.”

People Giving Firsts Games Sports Standing Give Me Towns Chicago Throwing Highlights Great Sports Cubs Ovation

Author:Patrick Kane

“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.”

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“First and foremost, my hats off to our directors and camera department. That is something I will miss after Longmire. I can't imagine working on another show that looks like this. We'll get the whole crew out on location and have a hundred people standing around, waiting for about 40 minutes, so that sun is just a little bit further in the sky and the light is hitting the cloud, in the perfect way.”

“I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'”

Men Firsts Remember Cases Sun Seeing Standing Cat Hollywood Guitar Glasses Corners Boots Thread Cowboy Vines Hipster Cowboy Boot

Author:Anita O'Day

“I'm in a new club, by the way. And I don't know if you're first timers like I am, but I'm in the 'I Just Dropped My Cell Phone In My Own Piss' Club. Have you done that? Yeah, good times. I'm on the phone and I forget that I'm using shoulder technique. Urinals were taken so I went in to use the regular john. And as I'm standing there, mid-conversation, I'm like 'Are you serious?' and it just started to toboggan right down my powerful chest.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Done Use My Own Forget Powerful Taken Serious Conversation First Time Standing Yeah Phones Clubs Technique Shoulders Cells Good Times Chests Cell Phone Standing There Timer

Author:Dane Cook

“I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.”

People Firsts Fronts Standing Idiot Grades

Author:Jon Hamm

“I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!”

People Thinking Firsts Reason Shows Seems Easy Successful Fronts Musician Standing Guitar Gears Knocking Warehouse

Author:Grimes

“Whenever I teach writing I tell them to never revise as you go. Finish the first draft. This is my writing advice. I can't do that myself. I'm lying to everybody. I write a paragraph, and then I rewrite that paragraph. I want to feel like I'm standing on firm ground before I move on to the next paragraph. Mentally, I have to do that.”

Want Feels Writing Firsts I Can Moving Lying Next Teach Advice Standing Firm Writing Advice Paragraph

Author:Matt de la Pena

“I can't just go up to people standing in the snow at the German-Austrian border and ask them: "Are you an Islamist?" When people flee to us from war zones, we first have to help. But we also have to be quick to look very closely at who it is that is coming.”

People Firsts Looks I Can War Helping Asks Standing Snow Borders Zone Islamists War Zones

Author:Alice Schwarzer

“The first time I ever thought about doing a film seriously, I was in London. I was about 17 years old. I was just standing in the street, a bit dazzled by an Antonioni bus wipe, which by the way are inherent in London, and I imagined a film set in London starting out with the riff from The Yardbird's "Heart Full of Soul", and now, how ever many years later, I've done it.”

Way Years Firsts Heart Soul Done Film Bits Streets First Time Standing Starting London Bus Inherent Wipe Starting Out Film Set

Author:William Monahan

“At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.”

People Firsts Dream Eye Wanted Faces Saws Team Thousand Standing Twenties Finished Trials Routine Cheer Olympics Competing Blink Blink Of An Eye Ovation

Author:Nastia Liukin

“I tend not to hang with 'the crowd' because I believe that at any given moment in history, the crowd is only standing somewhere because some lone, brave nutjob broke down the walls for them first.”

Firsts Believe Moments Given I Believe Wall Standing Brave Crowds Broke Lone

Author:Jim Goad

“If someone tries to put limits on the press, I'll be the first one standing up for the right of press, left and right, to continue saying and being part of the discussion and forwarding the discussion.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Left Limits Standing Presses Discussion Left And Right

Author:Rand Paul

“In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman standing, very well-dressed and groomed, and he asked, "What is your name? I don't know you. What is your major?" I said history. And he looked at my drawing and looked at me and said, "You don't belong over there; you belong here." He was James A. Porter.”

Knows Firsts Wells Art Said Courses Names One Day Majors Standing Drawing Shoulders Gentleman Tall Well Dressed

Author:David C. Driskell

“Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.”

Knows Want Firsts May States Seems Would Be School America United Common United States Our Lives Circumstances Standing African American I Want You United States Of America First Lady

Author:Michelle Obama

“I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.”

Firsts Moments Would Be Needed First Time Standing Wings

Author:Michael Chabon

“Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.”

People Firsts Standing East Beach Columbus Vikings

Book:Leepike Ridge

Source: Leepike Ridge

“Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does”

Firsts Doe Reading Next Fields First Time Standing Israel Historian Scholar Archaeologists Reading The Bible

Book:Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

“On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches." (James Frey, pg.1)”

Men Firsts Three Lines Hundred Standing Pounds Jail Lunch Throwing Metals Trays Standing In Line Throwing Punches

Book:My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporal crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had.”

“A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Said Running Young Mother Fall Girl Next Strong Grows Growing Tree Wind Standing Weak Tall Weed Crooked Strong Winds Joy Luck Club

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place. But standing there alone on the landing, I thought of Grandma Halley and how she'd held me close against her lap as we watched the sky together. I'd always thought I couldn't remember, but suddenly in that moment, I closed my eyes and saw the comet, finally, brilliant and impossible, stretching above me across the sky.”

Way Firsts Moments Eye Together Remember Loses Saws Plans Impossible Sky Standing Track Brilliant That Moment Get Back Lap Grandma Stretching Landing Standing There Comets Back On Track

Book:Someone Like You

Source: Someone Like You

“Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty. Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head. "Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy? On the Tv screen, some woman in a pink bathrobe smiled up at the camera and mouthed, Yes, it is!”

Firsts Littles Would Be Guy Tvs Duty Red Standing Cameras Screens Shoulders Considering Hello Arrows Assignments Call Of Duty Above And Beyond

Author:J.R. Ward

“I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.”

“A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.”

People Firsts Mean Children Long School Long Time Adults Standing Tasks Trade Phrases Instruction Long Time Ago Tedious Bossy

Author:Daniel Handler

“Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.”

Firsts Earth Nature Pieces Land Standing West South Corners Impulse Islands Spontaneous Cliffs Applause New Zealand Terrain

Book:Last Chance To See

Source: Last Chance To See

“She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.”

Firsts Eye Found Felt Blood Kissing Standing Bones Cheeks Her Eyes Kissing Him

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Let me guess,” Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.” I just looked at him, standing there in jeans and the same blue hoodie he’d had on the first time I met him. Maybe it was the embarrassment, which had been bad enough before I had an audience, but I was instantly annoyed. I said, “Are we outside?” He glanced round, as if needing to confirm this. “Nope.” “Then no.” I turned my attention back to the keg.”

Source: Along for the Ride

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