Firsts Quotes - Page 203

There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then.

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

As soon as a man has his guard up, he will not fall in love or get attached. The only way he'll get attached is if you lower his guard first.

I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.

First trust your eyes... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply.

The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.

But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

I've found that I'd be the first one to cut lines.

A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.