Firsts Quotes - Page 42

When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.

Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.

First we build people, then we build cars.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

First off, I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

The first rough draft of history.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

Martial art has always been my first love.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

Your sixth sense should be your first sense.