I learned the first rule of living with a laid-off spouse: Listen and care.
If he were learning the second list without having learned the first, the subject would not be so handicapped.
Daily Beast | David Cole, a law professor, reminds us of a lesson he learned: The First Amendment doesn't always protect free speech.
It's hard to avoid the sense that we have all been here before, and that lessons were incompletely learned the first time around.
"The main thing I think I learned the first time, this is even more magnified because of the condensed schedule and playing so many games without practice time.
On my mother's side, J. R. Clifford, my great-uncle, was, I learned, the first black man to be admitted to the bar in the state of West Virginia.
The Palestinian leadership seems to have learned the first lesson, and is pursuing the U.N. initiative in a manner that reveals its capacity to shake up a stagnant diplomatic arena.
A look at the genesis of this precursor building, the Van Corlear, offers a better understanding of the Dakota — because it so clearly benefited from lessons the two men learned the first time around.
Sitting in an airport V.I.P. lounge a few years ago, Anthony Quinn looked up from the TV set on which he was watching "To Catch a Thief" and said, "That's the actor I always wanted to be" — which is fairly funny, not only because Quinn and Grant are such contrasting types but because Quinn has never learned the first thing from Cary Grant.
For all his experience as a writer, Theroux has not learned the first law of writing, which is this: if you are particularly proud of a sentence, by all means enjoy it for a day or two, but then you must cross it out, for it is certainly a bad sentence and it will haunt you.
But he's keeping in mind lessons he learned the first time around.
