Firsts Quotes - Page 271

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless.

There are only 2 reasons that someone would want something in their life and not get it. First, they don't know what to do and second, they know what to do and don't know how to get themselves to do it consistently, if at all.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.

I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

I love first base. I want to get better.

I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did.

When you need a lifestyle change due to [health issues], a dietary change is usually the first thing you need to take control of.

The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American.

That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.' Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it.