Firsts Quotes - Page 126

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

My first impression was that this guy [Ndamukong Suh] is very confident. For him to be so young, I was kind of caught off guard by how confident he was. But then my first time seeing him on the field, pretty much solidified why he was so confident. He's obviously a monster.

First you get a habit, then it gets you.

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief ... that nobody can be sure that what he believes is right, is really right ... I'm an imperfect human being who cannot be certain of anything, so what position ... involved the least intolerance on my part? ... The most attractive position ... is putting individual freedom first.

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which finally passed in the Senate late last year, is a throwback to the 1990s, when ENDA was first introduced; the bill wasn’t updated to the times we live in. It exempts businesses owned by religious groups.

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

The banquet is in the first bite.

By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.

I'll always stand by the first [Batman]. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title...is like, so...I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

Yoga teaches you aim for the highest first, and the highest is always love. From there everything else will follow.