Quotes about firsts
firsts causes energy
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed. Herbert Spencer
firsts stirring
We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do. Herman Melville
firsts newspapers duty
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. Herbert Bayard Swope
firsts treats egomania
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that. Herb Kelleher
firsts listening-to-music
First of all I listen to music. I like music. Gyorgy Ligeti
firsts rags mines
First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up. ... Jean Genet
firsts judgment mistaken
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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
firsts hills higher
Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course. Esa-Pekka Salonen
firsts first-amendment should
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. Ernest Istook
firsts hysterical frightened
I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit. Erma Bombeck
firsts glad
The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself. Florence Scovel Shinn
firsts answers asks
The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any. Flann O'Brien
firsts necks clock
Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7. Flavor Flav
firsts chickens written
Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part. Flannery O'Connor
firsts life-is our-lives
We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life. Guy Finley
firsts discouraging finished
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging. Gore Vidal
firsts photograph artificial
To make a photograph is already the first artificial act. Gerhard Richter
firsts email get-up
When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email. James G. Stavridis
firsts holy made
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. J. R. R. Tolkien
firsts want telling-the-truth
Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen. Iyanla Vanzant
firsts moral found
Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept. Immanuel Kant
firsts steps first-steps
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. Elon Musk
firsts income source
The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income. Ellen Gilchrist
firsts modern ends
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
firsts succeed loser
If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers. Jerry Lawler
firsts principles emotion
emotion is first of all and in principle an accident Jean-Paul Sartre
firsts appearance weak
Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak. Georges Bernanos
firsts deceiving cheat
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too. George Zimmerman
firsts taste good-taste
Good taste consists first upon fitness. George William Curtis
firsts persons areas
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. Georges Bataille
firsts stories accepted
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' George Saunders
firsts speak
...smile first, then speak.
firsts tickets birth
Birth is life's first lottery ticket. Jeffrey Archer