First Place Quotes

879 First Place quotes by 662 unique authors

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first… — Jorge Luis Borges
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were… — Abigail Van Buren
In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign… — Mikhail Lermontov
Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with… — Bertrand Russell
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money… — George Burns
In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself. — J D Salinger
Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The… — Kurt Vonnegut
I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her… — Cassandra Clare
You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place. — Kelly Link
This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in… — Nick Hornby
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a… — Joan Didion
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
Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place. — Ilona Andrews
pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly, and if left unresolved you can almost forget that… — William P. Young
In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to… — Flannery O'Connor
Stop looking at me like that." Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment," Mom replied. What moment?" I asked. You're in first place," she… — Lisa Lutz
I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. — Ayn Rand
Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something… — Henry Rollins
Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it… — Colum McCann
And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous… — Stephen King
When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance… — Charles de Lint
When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese.… — George Carlin
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some… — A. J. Jacobs
People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't… — Jeanne DuPrau
Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could… — Arundhati Roy

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