Firsts Quotes - Page 45

At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it.

When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

A good first impression can work wonders

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.