Firsts Quotes - Page 94

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

First you harmonize, then you customize.

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

If design is the first signal of human intention.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

First thoughts are not always the best.

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.