Firsts Quotes - Page 248

I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.

I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.

At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.

To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.

To accomplish anything you must first have a mission, a goal, a hope, a vision.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

That’s right, Sadie. For our first real date, I picked up Zia in a boat pulled by a deranged griffin. So what? Like your dates aren’t weird?

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.

Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first." I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Sorry, Sage. Last I checked, you aren’t an expert in social matters..." "At least I take action. You? You let the world go by without you. You have no spine. You don’t fight back." “You don’t know the first thing about me, Adrian Ivashkov. I fight back plenty.

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkov--my more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroi--and another spirit user like Lissa. He'd been crazy about me (and often just crazy) ever since we first met

Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.

If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.