Firsts Quotes

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?

The person lives twice who lives the first life well

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

Winning doesn't always mean being first.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.