#first

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#always #did #favorite #favorite things #felt

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#black #blood #cannot #colombia #die

First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#everybody #feel #first #foremost #fun

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ↗

— Aristotle

#courage #first #guarantees #human #human qualities

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #language #making #means #must

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #good #must #ruled #ruler

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#ever #experience #first #green #green bay

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#getting #hurt #losing #me #nearly

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#chosen #circumstance #command #first #flight