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Firsts Quotes by Brandon Sanderson
- Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.
- I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)
- Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people…
- You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted.…
- At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design.…
- What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in…
- People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a…
- AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him…
- Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones…
- Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s…
- Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He’d done it…
- They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to…
- There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in…
- Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong