Firsts Quotes - Page 97

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

A leader is not someone who says: Follow me.......A leader is someone who says: I'll go first.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first Vogue cover. It was French Vogue - I think in ’87 or ’88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, "Oh, no. We’ve never had that before."

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

People’s State, is a yoke, on the one hand giving rise to despotism and on the other to slavery. They say that such a yoke – dictatorship is a transitional step towards achieving full freedom for the people: anarchism or freedom is the aim, while state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses of people, they have first to be enslaved!

Go as hard as you can on the first piece and then pray that you get switched. Repeat.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

'Cause I do so much homework I'm good to go on the first take; I don't want to rehearse. I like the element of what's unpredictable of that first take and nobody knows what's going to happen, and I'm a big fan of that.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.