Firsts Quotes - Page 190

We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

I don't pretend that all the first Zionists wanted Israel to be a moral state. For some it was quite enough that it be a normal state. Just like everyone else.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here.

Transformed worship is a life lived in Christ and for Christ...If you are to lead engaging worship, you must first recognize your own need for Christ and His Spirit to live in you.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink

The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans.

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.