Firsts Quotes - Page 210

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three--first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity--without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith.

but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

[Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

I always get a headache the first time I watch a movie I'm in. Because you're staring at the screen so hard, your brain is doing all this work trying to put things in context of what the day-to-day experience of making it was. And the timeline that's in your head of when it was made, and on what day, how you felt. And then you're also trying to grasp what it's been edited into.

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.