Firsts Quotes - Page 67

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will. Third: He has selected me to explain this message. Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

I identify myself as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.

It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.

The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.

Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change.

First and last follow each other.

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions.