Firsts Quotes - Page 36

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

First they went after the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up for me.

I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.

I don't always know where this life is going. i can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.

Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for.

First things first, I'm da realest.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

First know yourself, then know others.

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

Consciousness comes first; it is the ground of all being. Everything else, including matter, is a possibility of consciousness. And consciousness chooses out of these possibilities all the events we experience.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

The groves were God's first temples.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!