Firsts Quotes

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

Be true to yourself, know that your are more than your face and body, and keep God first.

The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself.

The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.

Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

There never was a revelation without a question first.