Firsts Quotes

...smile first, then speak.

One must first become a magician before one he can become a Kabbalist. As a Kabbalist, one works differently and more advantageously.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

First thoughts are not always the best.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.