Firsts Quotes · Page 30

Awareness is always the first step.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

If at first you don't succeed, give up.

— Homer

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

— Richard Marcinko

Drop dead-but first get permit

— Robert A. Heinlein

The first blow is as much as two.

— George Herbert

If you would take, you must first give.

— Laozi

My first wife was a theater person.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Don't stop with your first draft.

— P. J. Plauger

To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark.

— Dominic Rouse

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

— Robert Jordan

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

— Charles L. Allen

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

— Ali Liebegott

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

— Danica McKellar

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

— Sarah Dessen

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

— George Herbert

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked…

— Ian Hislop

Any man who doesn't believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.

— Anonymous

There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the…

— Larry Nelson

I like the word f-k. F-king deal with it and move on to the first f-king question you have.

— Ozzy Osbourne

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

— Jane Anderson

First thing you have to do is say to yourself what can I bring to it, what can I do that's different…

— Rudy Giuliani

First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to…

— Jack Welch

Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over…

— Linda Sunshine

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability,…

— Jacque Fresco

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure…

— Alex Garland

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I…

— Rod Serling

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause…

— Anonymous

Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for…

— Jacques Pepin

How to Stay Christian in Seminary should be placed in the hands of every first-year seminarian. It provides a much-needed balance as…

— Daniel L. Akin

First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social…

— Martin Niemoller

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots,…

— Stephen Nathanson

The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to…

— Lawrence Hargrave

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and…

— Hannah Arendt

In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination…

— Maximus the Confessor