Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
~ Sun Tzu
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
~ Adam Hochschild
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
~ Wilfred Burchett
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
~ Red Auerbach
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
~ George William Norris
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
~ Emily Greene Balch
Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
~ Peter Jennings
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
~ John T. Flynn
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.
~ Isoroku Yamamoto
First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
~ Barton Gellman
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
~ Natalie Cole
Our first and last love is self-love.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The first duty of love is to listen.
~ Paul Tillich
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
~ Christopher Marlowe
I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.
~ Jerry Hall
The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
~ Halsey
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
~ Jessamyn West
Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.
~ Sam Altman
I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.
~ Irina Shayk
Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.
~ Jason Calacanis
When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.
~ Dan Gilbert
There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
~ Sally Ride
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
~ Alexei Sayle
The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
~ Rob Lowe
As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.
~ Chris Hadfield
I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.
~ Bill Maris
I couldn't get my first film on the air. The first film I did was called 'The Race For Space,' about the U.S.-Soviet space race. The networks had a policy that I found out about the hard way. I even had a sponsor for my program, but the networks wouldn't put it on because it was independently produced.
~ David L. Wolper
Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
~ Walt Mossberg
When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
~ Frank Press
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
~ Emile M. Cioran
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
~ Matt Dillon
I loved the first Christmas I had in England.
~ Blythe Danner
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
~ Stephen Leacock
'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video.
~ Megan Nicole
I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
~ Uday Kiran
Every noble work is at first impossible.
~ Thomas Carlyle
When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.
~ Jill Scott
