Firsts Quotes - Page 195

I just want my kids to see that when you serve and put other people first and invest in other people it will come back!

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

I don't think I remember my first memory.

The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.

Can't you see... that I made it? Yeah I made it First I made you who you are, but then I made it.

I wonder if anybody ever decided to commit suicide, then thought; but first I'm going to stop by that taco place I like so much.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you need, it will be so.