Firsts Quotes - Page 57

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.

Put God first in everything you do.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.

Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.