Quotes on Firsts

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.

After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; _x000D_ then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

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 advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He’d never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive

Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand before and after in which they are innocent victims who have no say in the matter. Perhaps they simply are kissed and want to kiss back. Perhaps they even kiss first. And why should they not?

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?