Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when t...he sated man instructs the hungry one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish not to be given a title or an appointed position. I can and will do more good if I were made a Federal Agent at Large, and ...I will help best by doing it my way through my communications with people of all ages. First and Foremost I am an entertainer but all I need is the Federal Credentials.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicl...y, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans have internalized the value that mothers of young children should be mothers first and foremost, and not paid workers. T...he result is that a substantial amount of confusion, ambivalence, guilt, and anxiety is experienced by working mothers. Our cultural expectations of mother and realities of female participation in the labor force are directly contradictory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the hu...man currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human,... even if despicable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The desire of most parents is first and foremost to do what is best for their children. Every interview with a mother or father co...nfirms this, every letter written by a parent breathes this deep-seated wish, "I hope I am doing the right thing for my child." This is real and honest, and at the very base of parenthood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one--to secure peace of m...ind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Man] has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first ...and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race--and ours--sexual intercourse! It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »