#initial

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

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in. ↗

— John Blair

#arrest #assaulting #beaten #cell #charged

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#creation #death #initial #life #love

In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease. ↗

— Connie Britton

#around #bunch #ease #felt #friday

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. ↗

— Sally Ride

#enterprise #eventually #going #help #i

After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#because #chance #every #got #hire

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales. ↗

— David Rose

#cell #cell phone #decade #due #initially

In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back. ↗

— Carlos Alvarez

#came #corona #fast #few #good

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#because #calling #change #dresses #everyone

I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically. ↗

— Joan Jett

#coming #country #direction #enough #fired