First Place Quotes
879 quotes by 696 authors
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If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in…
— Sitting Bull
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The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.
— William Stringfellow
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My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call…
— Claude Shannon
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I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers…
— Harper Lee
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Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in…
— R C Sproul
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Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is…
— Kevin DeYoung
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The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
— Sam Snead
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Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
— Margaret Thatcher
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The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'…
— Brion Gysin
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WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all…
— Simon Sinek
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Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
— Simon Sinek
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A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your…
— Lester Bangs
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That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
— Stephan Jenkins
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Love is why I came here in the first place.
— John Denver
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I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order…
— Molly Ivins
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If you have it you don't need it. If you need it, you don't have it. If you have it, you need more of it.…
— Bruce Campbell
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God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to…
— Francis Schaeffer
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
— Major Owens
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Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on…
— William P. Young
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