Firsts Quotes - Page 72

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, 'If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.'

I don't remember the first stunt I ever did.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.

What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.

Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.

When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!