Firsts Quotes - Page 205

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.

Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.

The first dollar is the most you will get if you don't love what you are doing.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.