Firsts Quotes - Page 74

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.

To change the world It starts with one step However small First step is hardest of all.

The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

The first shot does not beat you.

Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

"Safety First" is "Safety Always."

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

The Holy Spirit is profoundly committed to restoring the first commandment to first place in our lives.

It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.

Sometimes kissing is better than sex. Especially kissing someone for the first time

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.

Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

The first principle of all action is leisure.

I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.