Firsts Quotes - Page 33

I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate"; the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

First I went left, he did too. Then I went right, and he did too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.

To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

Everything was fine until I walked on to the first tee!

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.