Firsts Quotes - Page 75

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

What I love the most about surfing is that it's my first love. It's the first thing I can remember being consumed by.

One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.

For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.