Firsts Quotes - Page 168

Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

We always come back to our first love.

Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more.

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.

...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with.