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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about society, state, age, olderness, nothing

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

Quote by John Abizaid about things, time, people

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

Quote by Warren Beatty about wealth, things, rightness, man

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about opinion, interest

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape.

Quote by Walter Pater about opinion, grace, human imperfections, life

In our existence, absolutely anything that would refer to its self, as evil to evil and good to good would lead to the annulment of the actual reference, so it is absolutely necessary for a final referent to exist, that is in no way the same as...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about origin, good, good luck, end, existence, self-control