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First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
Angelina Jolie

Life, Family, Children

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor

Mother, Eyes, After

It took me 40 years to write my first book.
Paulo Coelho

Book, Write, Took

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
George Burns

Forget, Down, Next

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Truth, Courage, May

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Greatest, Conscience, Sin

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Work, Friend

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac

Husband, Himself, Mistress

I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton

Society, Justice, Duty

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Human, Insult, Stone

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp

After, Four, Worse

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Best, Last, Genius

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Life, Faith, Nothing

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron

Life, Love, Woman

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas Merton

God, Truth, Step

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein

Life, Getting, Step

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Nora Ephron

Care, Writing, Acceptance

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.
Hillary Clinton

Yourself, Job, Difficult

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Great, Become

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes

True, Single, Doubt

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Bertrand Russell

Age, Religion, Door

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
Venus Williams

Job, Big, Sister

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Good, Give

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Sachin Tendulkar

Love, Hate, Winning

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

Great, Hope, Sorrow

Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg

Nothing, Dream, Happens

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud

Justice, Requisite

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

Time, Tell, Desire

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
Marcelene Cox

Parents, Blame, Succeed

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Knowledge, Person, Step

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