Firsts Quotes - Page 229

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.

You're never quite sure, when you first get something if you really have a sense of what an opportunity it is.

One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot.'

If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

I guess, first and foremost, I'd like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.

I've always looked at myself and criticized myself first, and that's the way I'm always going to be.

Donald Trump always puts himself first.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.

The truth is at Legendary we really make movies that we want to see, and someday I'm sure that won't work but - I remember, it's obviously a completely different thing, but our first movie was Batman Begins, and there was a lot of things about Batman back then, and there was this guy named Christopher Nolan, that seemed to have worked out okay with him at the helm.

Have we been guilty of declaring, 'I've been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step-tomorrow'? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today.

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.

Things were first made, then words.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind