First Place Quotes

879 First Place quotes by 662 unique authors

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly… — Douglas Adams
it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place. — Khaled Hosseini
I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down… — Nora Roberts
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered… — Michael Chabon
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual… — John Lennon
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them… — Stephen King
You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of… — Terry Pratchett
These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the… — Haruki Murakami
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody… — Ken Kesey
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling… — Roger Zelazny
Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't… — Annie Dillard
In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love.… — Paulo Coelho
You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support… — Jodi Picoult
They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low… — J. Michael Straczynski
for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to… — Jodi Picoult
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the… — Sarah Dessen
The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases… — Chuck Palahniuk
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then… — Barack Obama
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place? — William S. Burroughs
Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some. — Stephen Colbert
Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride… — Takehiko Inoue
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the… — Michael Crichton
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place — Gore Vidal

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