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First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
We make sacred pact. I promise teach
karate to you, you promise learn.
I say, you do, no questions.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
The awareness that health is dependent
upon habits that we control
makes us the first generation in history
that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
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