Firsts Quotes - Page 177

Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

First thoughts are the strongest.

Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all.

We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Obviously music is my first job.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions

Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.