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Firsts Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be.…
- I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and…
- Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and…
- 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…
- And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let…
- Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
- in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and…
- He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted…
- Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
- I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day…
- Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and…
- It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's…
- Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully…
- Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
- She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though…
- Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong