Firsts Quotes

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

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

Marry yourself first -- promise never to leave you!

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.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

To achieve beauty, a woman must first achieve health.

The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book

Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

At some point you're like, gosh, this rehab is never going to end, and then all of a sudden I'm full strength and I'm about to go to my first competition. So I feel really great.

Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Winning doesn't always mean being first.

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

The first principle of aid is respect.

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.

Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.