Quotes about firsts
firsts losing sometimes
Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves. Richard Paul Evans
firsts loses
We can only lose what we have first claimed.
firsts
The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing. Richard John Neuhaus
firsts half educator
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. Russell Baker
firsts causes first-date
Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident. Russell Brand
firsts yeah brandy
We started filming [with Brandy Burre ]and didn't really know, at first, what we were doing. Eventually, the thing just grabbed a hold of both of us and became what it is. But, yeah, we were very close before and we're even closer now. Robert Greene
firsts survivor enough
I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on. Ric Flair
firsts maps serials
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. Richard Ford
firsts directors sometimes
(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director. Richard Gere
firsts i-have-learned deals
I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me. Reba McEntire
firsts gifts-of-life breaths
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT. Rob Bell
firsts half wells
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Richard Rohr
firsts different common
Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
firsts poor obligation
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor. Richard Lamm
firsts murder follow-me
I know death follows me, but I murder him first. Tupac Shakur
firsts first-amendment amendments
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash. Trey Gowdy
firsts impossible first-time
Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible Sarah Dessen
firsts alive language
It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.
firsts world hours
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
firsts quiet empty
I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.
firsts bitter weak
Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.
firsts sometimes charm
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
firsts belief first-amendment
It is true that many Americans find the (Ten) Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. Sandra Day O'Connor
firsts cry mascara
Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear. Sandra Bullock
firsts sometimes boring
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated. Roger Scruton
firsts moral argument
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
firsts just-being kind
It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot. Roger Ebert
firsts cuffs said
Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.
firsts clarity language
Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism. Robin Morgan
firsts misery sincerity
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
firsts novelty admiration
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. Samuel Johnson
firsts said first-time
Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker. Sarah Rees Brennan
firsts myth workers
We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate. Vivek Wadhwa