Firsts Quotes

Obama was gonna get everything he wanted in the first year because, if anybody opposed it, they were gonna be accused of being a racist, or bigot, or who knows what.

[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote.

Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

Companies that put a mandated parental leave in place save money in the first year, FIRST YEAR. Because they don't have to hire to replace the woman.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.

Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to anything I've really played before, this part.

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Destroy the old files, but make copies first.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

All history was at first oral.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK.

It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

The first boy was always the hardest.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?

Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.