Firsts Quotes

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.

When I evaluate a candidate, one of the most important criteria is what I call “the first derivative.” Is this person learning? Is this candidate moving forward, or have they stagnated.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.

The Pleiadians are opening an energetic timeline for the very first time in any seminar, allowing you to enter the timeline where all experience occurs, because everything exists in one moment.

You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

To become a leader, you must first become a human being

For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

My first time on stage was the class "graduation" at the Comedy Store. It was awesome. Everything got huge laughs and I just thought I knew how to do comedy.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.