Firsts Quotes - Page 13

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

But the first thing that we have to do is to say, “I walk towards the tunnel, and I’m on my own, and I’m not afraid. And I have no regrets.

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.

You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.

First of all, Jericho...Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back!

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place.

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun.

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

I can remember sittin in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.

First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!