Firsts Quotes - Page 136

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.

I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance did Fences. I've long considered August Wilson to be one of the five greatest playwrights in American history.

First tell the truth, then give your opinion.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.

So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.