Firsts Quotes - Page 101

If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

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.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

My first thought is always of light.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

One must first become a magician before one he can become a Kabbalist. As a Kabbalist, one works differently and more advantageously.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - Understand Me. I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.