Firsts Quotes - Page 11

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.

If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.