Firsts Quotes

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Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second,… — Linus Pauling
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has… — Francois Mauriac
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by… — Franz Kafka
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless… — Edward Eggleston
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old. — Lady Bird Johnson
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only… — John Taylor Gatto
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to… — John Taylor Gatto
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and… — Pope John Paul II
The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The First Bond of Society is Marriage. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy… — Jennifer Lopez
If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second. — Richard J. Foster
The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul… — John Climacus
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the… — Robert Collier
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. — William Temple
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. — William Temple
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. — Hugo Black
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because… — Rajneesh
You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love into it, it… — Rajneesh

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