Firsts Quotes - Page 223

Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.

We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.

Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.

Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.