Firsts Quotes

Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.

What I love the most about surfing is that it's my first love. It's the first thing I can remember being consumed by.

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?

I am younger each year at the first snow.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

Yes, it’s embarrassing to be born again, but imagine how embarrassing it must have been to be born the first time. At least this time you get to wear clothes!

The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third...

Experience first, then intellectualize.

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.