Firsts Quotes

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.

In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

First off, I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something

I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

Hey Bieber, I had the initials JB first.. Where's my 15%?

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

Let's put the safety and security of the American people first.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

People should accept themselves for who they really are and be proud of that and take ownership of that first and learn that self love to really be happy.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

Your sixth sense should be your first sense.

Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.