First Place Quotes

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If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them.Â Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place. — Jinxx
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault. — Erica Jong
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education… — Laura Mennell
We tell each other stories to help each other live. Thatâ€™s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. Thatâ€™s why I went… — Marie Howe
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in… — Wyndham Lewis
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it… — Pope John Paul II
The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never… — William Gurnall
It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the… — Edward de Bono
It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the… — Sogyal Rinpoche
To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the… — Robert Holden
Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the… — Philip Guston
Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place. — Gene Brown
In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users… — Vinton Cerf
It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get… — E. J. Hughes
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,… — Samuel Johnson
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of… — Orson Welles
Somebody once told me, â€˜Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.â€™ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing… — Steve Jobs
I also made two very important discoveries as time went on. In the first place, I discovered that making money was easy. I had been… — Peace Pilgrim
To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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