Firsts Quotes - Page 95

I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

If I end up showering first, I shower really quickly for the sake of the other tired members.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

[...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. It was alien to me and I to it.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

The first condition of immortality is death.

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.

As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.