Firsts Quotes
20399 Firsts quotes by 9251 unique authors
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My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
— Veronica Roth
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The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you…
— Lauren Oliver
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He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of…
— Octavio Paz
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It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.
— Adolf Hitler
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It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
— Ally Carter
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Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously…
— Richelle Mead
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Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my…
— Elie Wiesel
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She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is…
— David Levithan
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because…
— Anne Lamott
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He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
— Chris Bohjalian
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I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!
— Sidney Sheldon
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You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt…
— Marianne Williamson
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But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a…
— Marissa Meyer
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At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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