Firsts Quotes - Page 150

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.

You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself - an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who has never come across any darkness.

What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God.

We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

[Bob Ferguson] won that huge ruling against the first version of the Muslim ban that resulted in it being stopped dead in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

And then it was between Shane and Claire on who retreated first. "Uou go," he said. "Why?" Shane and Pete exchangedblooks. "Seriously?" Pete asked. "Yeah, she's like that," Shane said, and turned to her. "Because you're my girlfriend, and I'm not going unti; I know you're safe. How's that?

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

A first impulse was never a crime.

There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.

Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.

The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.