Firsts Quotes - Page 109

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played.

Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.

I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.

The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Nobody loves me. No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn't pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of the film.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

First catch your Boer, then kick him.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.