Firsts Quotes - Page 169

The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

First of all, the evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. This is true of every evangelical. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.