Firsts Quotes

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

Before I point a finger at anyone, I have to point it at myself first.

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, ‘Where is my food?’

Marry yourself first -- promise never to leave you!

First catch your Boer, then kick him.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Do not talk too much. First do some Sadhana. First do, then be, then you can talk.

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.

I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love.

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.