Firsts Quotes - Page 86

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And it won't be the last for me, either. If you don't like it, change the channel.

You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.'

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in. The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

First the grub, then the morals.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations.

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

I think of language as our first music.

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

God first, then papa.