Firsts Quotes - Page 212

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first!

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

Haven't you ever heard of the saying, "If you want to shoot the general, first shoot the horse!"?' --Lin If you wanna shoot the general, then you should just SHOOT THE GENERAL!' --Ed

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the first priority.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

The first thing you see is the last thing you do.

All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place.

You can't get to second base keeping one foot on first.

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.