Firsts Quotes - Page 84

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

For the first time ever, women are scoring higher than men on IQ tests. Scientists say it has something to do with breast implants -- not that it makes the women smarter, it just makes the men dumber.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!

What usually comes first is the contract.

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

Prettiness dies first.

When you're open to something it's like being a beacon, and you attract it. From the first time I heard the chanting Hare Krishna, it was like a door opened somewhere in my subconscious, maybe from some previous life.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.