Firsts Quotes - Page 121

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature; for why should a man need a second birth, if his nature were not quite marred in the first birth?

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

The Beatles are, first and foremost, my favorite band of all time.

Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.

The first billion is a helluva lot harder.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.