Firsts Quotes

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I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. — James Anthony Froude
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the… — Lytton Strachey
If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success. — Robert Orben
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. — Cecil Beaton
I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.… — Abraham Lincoln
Pride, the first peer and president of Hell. — Daniel Defoe
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left… — Thomas Jefferson
I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold. — Elizabeth I
If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it. — George Burns
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you… — Rajneesh
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first,… — Paul Brunton
I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the… — Alber Elbaz
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his… — Leonardo da Vinci
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever. — Vladimir Lenin
My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of… — Richard Dawkins
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and… — Vladimir Lenin
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear first created the gods. — George Santayana
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. — Sandra Day O'Connor
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
There is a light at the end of the tunnel but first you'll have to find the light switch and change the bulb before switching… — Tim Field

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