Firsts Quotes

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

If something is wrong with anyone, look first to the stomach.

I can remember sittin in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.

But the first thing that we have to do is to say, “I walk towards the tunnel, and I’m on my own, and I’m not afraid. And I have no regrets.

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.

As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.

You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place.

Wonder is the first of all the passions.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

First impressions are always unreliable.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

Don't belong to anything. Don't belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don't compare or compete. Just Be your Being.

I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton