First Place Quotes
879 First Place quotes by 662 unique authors
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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
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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
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Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
— Ilona Andrews
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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
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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
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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
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I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
— Ayn Rand
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the…
— Blaise Pascal
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It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up…
— Sylvia Plath
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It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they…
— Nicholas Sparks
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He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.
— Alexandra Potter
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Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But…
— Jerry Spinelli
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