First Place Quotes
879 First Place quotes by 662 unique authors
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For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study…
— J D Salinger
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above…
— Rene Daumal
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Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.
— Richard Bach
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The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they…
— Michael Chabon
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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
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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
— Khaled Hosseini
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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