#irs

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #first #learning #nothing #winning

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want. ↗

— Robert Collier

#essentials #first #know #want #you

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#age #around #eight #elderly #expectancy

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#every #felt #finally #first #first time

I looked along the aisle and saw her, and it was as if I saw her for the first time. Everything changed. The ancient featureless interior of me spangled orange, mint, cat-blue. I looked back to the window immediately, my face damp, my breath caught. And worried I would never have the courage to look at her again. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#everything-changed #featureless #first-time #change

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand. ↗

— Queen Mary

#first #hand #her #kiss #must

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more. ↗

— Richard Masur

#commercial #deaf #disabilities #example #first

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#claiming #distrusted #easier #fiction #get

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse? ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#first #how #job #king #minister

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#america #approach #badly #degree #dependent