Firsts Quotes

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for.

First know yourself, then know others.

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

Success only hurts the first time.

To change your horse you must first change yourself!

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

The first rough draft of history.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

There is no first strike in Karate.

First we build people, then we build cars.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

God's first creature, which was light.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.