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“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Character Feelings Memories Loss Struggle Meditation Willing Rate Corruption Settling Abundance Vague Dissatisfaction Provocative Zimbabwe Specifics

Author:Jabari Asim

“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.”

Firsts Helping Process Struggle Worst Cold Let Me Hot Drinking Warm Alcohol Weather Things To Do Worst Things Soup Drinking Alcohol Cold Heart Cold Weather Hot Soup

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.”

People Firsts Looks Today Certain Wealth Loss Views Struggle Security Average Point Of View Stability Soviet Hostility Ukraine Breakdown

Author:Victor Pinchuk

“All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.”

Want Giving Firsts Important Struggle Succeed Giving Up Important Things Not Giving Up

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.”

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty.”

“Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.”

Ifs Want Firsts Ideas Reality Born Struggle Clear Possibility Materials Tension Suggestions My Thoughts Spectators Laboratory Equilibrium Researchers Expressive

Author:Antoni Tapies

“I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.”

Years Firsts Father Struggle Survival Observing Fortitude Miami

Book:A Book

Source: A Book

“Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.”

“In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.”

Mind Firsts Might Struggle Months Late Evening Paris Outcomes Engaged Disorder Chill October

Author:William Styron

“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.”

Giving Firsts Littles Made Self Seems Rooms Effort Known Struggle Fire Sitting Devotion Inward Declaration

Book:The Bertrams: A Novel

Source: The Bertrams: A Novel

“I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.”

Knows Firsts Long America Black President Effort Race Struggle Highest Pages Finished Despite Chapters Best Effort

Author:Hillary Clinton

“My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.”

Trying Firsts Moral Struggle Dresses Shoulders Swings Dubious Tees

Author:Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

“For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.”

Giving Years Mind Firsts Has Beens Problem Today Form Sides Steps Struggle Taken Possibility Findings Brotherhood First Steps Humankind Finest Strife Torment Theoretical

Author:Mikhail Kalinin

“Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.”

“We are human, so we do go through pain and we struggle with things, but it's all about how you respond to a situation. My whole life, I've been responding in a positive way and keeping a positive mind, keeping God first in my heart, in my mind. No matter what wrong I've done, I know who sees the heart.”

Knows Way Mind Firsts Humans Heart Matter Done Whole Pain Situation Struggle My Heart No Matter What Whole Life Responding God First Positive Mind

Author:Adrian Peterson

“I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you!”

Knows Firsts Care Next Struggle Team Kissing Seasons Noise Nfl Quarterback Chad

Author:Joe Namath

“Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.”

Firsts Stories Shows Struggle Food Cooking International Symbols Culinary Geek Slides Squad Noodles Ramen

Author:Robert Stephens

“So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.”

People Ifs Thinking World Firsts Reality Brain Struggle Too Much Information Negative Threat Noise Receiving Too Much Information

Author:Shawn Achor

“[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.”

Firsts Has Beens Struggle Journalism Journalist Imperfect Noisy Scribbles

Author:Maureen Dowd

“Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Wells Littles Shows Stars Voice Struggle Meditation Wonderful Sea Hero Calling Labor Storm Noble Noise Machinery Quietness Clamor

Author:James Vila Blake

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.”

Men Firsts Humans Real Eye Leadership Human Beings Struggle Mankind Fields Guides Chiefs Servant Mentor Pathetic Statesmen Counselor Statesmanship

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.”

Firsts Children Stills Energy Parent Hurt Existence Attention Wonder Struggle Mere Disappointment Accomplishment Approval Sibling Me Alone Rivalry Alone Time Sibling Rivalry

Author:Adele Faber

“For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life.”

“The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.”

Firsts Lost Technology Struggle Conditions Century Communication Achievement Twenties Determine Confusion Print Domain Free Society New Technology Great Achievement Electronic Communication

Book:Technologies of Freedom

Source: Technologies of Freedom

“What happened to our nation on a September day set in motion the first great struggle of a new century. The enemies who struck us are determined and they are resourceful. They will not be stopped by a sense of decency or a hint of conscience--but they will be stopped.”

Firsts War Nations Enemy Struggle Happened Century Conscience Determined September Decency Hints Resourceful

Author:George W. Bush

“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved inwhat to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”

“When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself.”

“For me personally Cuba has been a healing state. When I first got here I had no sense that I had to heal or anything. When you're struggling for your life and you're in the midst of things, you don't feel all the blows.”

Feels Firsts Has Beens States Healing Struggle Blow Heal Midst Cuba

Author:Assata Shakur

“I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."”

Firsts Said Ends School Film Careers Struggle Dead Ends Film School

Author:George Lucas

“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.”

“It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.”

Firsts Looks Kind Reality Difficult My Own Struggle Tainted

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful.”

Should Writing Trying Firsts Wells Real Wanted Culture Struggle Pages Concern Awful Prose

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.”

Way Firsts Goal Struggle Static

Author:Angela Davis

“The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I'm a great actress, because I've already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.”

Firsts Mean I Can Done Can Do Careers Struggle Prove Actresses Best Things Oscars Auditions Make Me Happy Leading Me Nominations

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.”

Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Self Natural Struggle Draws Harder Drawing Visuals Vocabulary Intuitive Just Do It

Author:Arthur Jones

“I think all of us struggle with how to keep relationship alive. And yet it can't be static either. It's never going to be how it was when you first met because you're not in that place anymore; you're not necessarily the same people. So, that's the struggle - you're trying to make the relationship move forward with the rest of your life and make it special and meaningful. And I think it's incredibly challenging.”

People Thinking Trying Firsts Moving Challenges Struggle Alive Special Mets Meaningful Moving Forward Rest Of Your Life Static

Author:Julianne Moore

“The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.”

“How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation about the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. A refugee can't go back. An immigrant is someone - I chose to move to America. And I also have the option of saying hey, didn't work out, I can move back. That's a completely different story than someone who is locked in.”

Firsts Kind Stills I Can Different Stories America Moving Differences Struggle Development Conversation Smart Europe Work Out Hey Immigrants Locked Refugee

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“There's always changes in the way they do that in the cinematic universe. I think, with the S.H.I.E.L.D. 2.0, you're seeing some of the first ripples of those different points of view on what S.H.I.E.L.D. should be when it's rebuilt. I'm very, very curious to know which side Coulson will end up on in that struggle.”

Thinking Knows Way Should Firsts Different Ends Universe Sides Views Struggle Seeing Point Of View Curious Ripple Cinematic Different Points Of View

Author:Clark Gregg

“There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Two Country Happens Party Struggle Wise Groups Victory Dignity Democrat Rewards Libertarian Ignorant Fascists Reactionaries Wise People

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.”

Firsts Language My Own Struggle Issues

Author:Rirkrit Tiravanija

“The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.”

Men Firsts Children Different Whole Struggle Mythology Forests Factions

Author:Alex Graves

“Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.”

Firsts May Problem Seems Next Difficult Ability Effort Struggle Possibility Skills Painful Satisfaction Communicate Solve Instance Developing Right Thing Find Me New Possibilities

Author:Atul Gawande

“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.”

“[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.”

Firsts Passion Parent Kindness Struggle Duty Essentials Authority Elements Encouragement Patient Impression Triumph Temper Parental Loving Kindness Parental Authority

Author:Pope Pius XII

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