Firsts Quotes - Page 100

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Be not the first to take up the new, nor the last to cast the old aside.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.