Firsts Quotes - Page 137

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.

There's always someone going to come around who can be better than the best. You want to be the first. No one can ever forget the first.

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

In the army, all combat officers are taught the "Estimate of the Situation": When you are faced with a problem - take that hill, or in business maybe grow your market share - the first thing you do is to make an analysis of your environment.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.