Firsts Quotes - Page 46

Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized.

It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.

The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.