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First Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book…
- I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
- If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The…
- A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never…
- Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations.…
- That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the…
- Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
- With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a…
- The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered…
- There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard…
- I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure…
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong