"I am an optimist of the first order." — Alice Waters

More First Order Quotes

This quote is filed under First Order Quotes, one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
• The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to… — John C. Maxwell
• Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety… — Unknown Author
• You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues … You know that the… — Unknown Author
• Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. — Tobias Wolff
• He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems. — Heinz von Foerster
• Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This… — Karin Slaughter
• Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety. — Bob Wise
• Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and… — Philip Caputo
• Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will… — Jay Leno
• Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order… — John Foster

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