Firsts Quotes - Page 269

Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

We enjoy the fruit of the first coming but anticipate the glory of the second.

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy...

Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you're doing well.

It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

I like to get a vibe first, then a melody and really beat up the melody for a while, then try and find a lyric that really suits him/her.

One of those professional drivers hit one of those blockade barriers. It was the first car accident I have ever been in, so I was a little startled.

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.