Firsts Quotes - Page 63

We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know

The first person I ever cared deeply and sincerely about was - myself.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life.

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.

The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.