First Quotes

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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus
We call first truths those we discover after all the others. — Albert Camus
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all… — Albert Camus
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. — Shana Alexander
Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second. — Eric Cantona
Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary. — Eric Cantona
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to… — Karel Capek
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or… — Lois Capps
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. — Orson Scott Card
When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which… — Steve Carell
The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them. — Drew Carey
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. — George Carlin
I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in shape after having… — Kim Alexis
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. — Robert Carlyle
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. — Robert Carlyle
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. — Thomas Carlyle
Every noble work is at first impossible. — Thomas Carlyle
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. — Stokely Carmichael
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie

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