Firsts Quotes - Page 204

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

Companies that put a mandated parental leave in place save money in the first year, FIRST YEAR. Because they don't have to hire to replace the woman.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp magazines. They lacked the visceral appeal of his Tarzan stories, which inspired an estimated 89 movies; amazingly, this is the first John Carter movie, but it is intended to foster a franchise and will probably succeed.

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

When you go on a movie set, there used to be one woman: script supervisor. Now they were in all capacities in addition to heading studios. So that's the biggest change of all from the early '50s, when I first started.

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Drop dead-but first get permit

Budget the luxuries first.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

First open your heart, then open your Bible.

You have to throw yourself into a situation of trust with these things, especially that first day when you don't know someone and you're on a massive Disney Hollywood movie set.

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.