Firsts Quotes - Page 113

The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.

The first thing to remember: There's no substitute for cold steel. They do not like it up 'em, they DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.

Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very foolishly, on all sorts of trivialities and rubbish, and that only the bureaucrats, by first seizing it from them, will know how to spend it wisely.

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it’s ready and then your ghost pours the resurrection potion out of the moka pot.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.