#first

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#aroused #carrying #definite #enthusiasm #first

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#any #careful #church #constitute #dead

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do. ↗

— Thuy Trang

#carter #encouragement #female #first #gives

For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her. ↗

— Randy Travis

#because #bible #big #big influence #come

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression? ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#amendment #companies #constitutionally #days #expression

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party. ↗

— Linda Tripp

#first #incumbent #loyalty #party #regardless

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ↗

— Mark Twain

#boards #first #god #idiots #made

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#first #got #left #may #things

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #fighters #first

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful #creation #divine #first #god