"Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting."

-- Gloria Feldt

#Firsts Quotes #Tone Quotes #Debate Quotes

“Oh, what a void there is in things.”
“There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon”
“I get recognized a lot now. It's great.”
“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”
“Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.”
“A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.”

Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “Reuben, Reuben: A Novel”, p.150, University of Chicago Press
“Events are not a matter of chance.”

Source : Robert St. John, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1960). “The boss: the story of Gamal Abdel Nasser”
“I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.197, Transaction Publishers

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