First Step Quotes

You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.
Margot Kidder

Mind, Again, Getting

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.
Ray Comfort

Faith, God, Men

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
Alexander Herzen

Others, Off, Step

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.
Michael N. Castle

Goal, Dream, Rather

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.
Sherwood Boehlert

Step, Taken, Oil

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
Emma Bonino

Fair, Step, Granted

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Karr

Death, Friends, Step

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.
Lee H. Hamilton

Support, State, Step

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
Henry L. Stimson

Nature, Control, Old

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
Chauncey Depew

Getting, Step, Stay

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
Alva Myrdal

Step, Consider, Realistic

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.
Jim Talent

Good, Step, General

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.
Matt Drudge

Good, Step, Reporting

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
Jerry Only

Time, Writing, Wanted

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.
Thaksin Shinawatra

Government, Step, Sincerity

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
Laurent Fabius

History, End, Far

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
Patrick Ewing

Him, Door, Making

Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.
Patty Murray

Long, Problems, Social

The first step... shall be to lose the way.
Galway Kinnell

Lose, Step, Shall

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.
Issey Miyake

Change, Alive, Step

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.
Giovanni Agnelli

Whole, Step, Economy

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.
Brian Koslow

Less, Step, Wealth

Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.
John Carter

Government, Political, Working

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.
Terry Goodkind

True, Afraid, Believing

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Throsby Bridges

May, Wish, Making

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Richard Cecil

Knowledge, Step, Ignorant

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson

Yourself, Strong, Powerful

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
Daniel Barenboim

Trust, Democracy, Chance

The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.
Leopold Zunz

Find, Liberty, Step

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