Quotes on Firsts

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

My roommate says, "I'm going to take a shower and shave. Does anyone need to use the bathroom?" It's like some weird quiz where he reveals the answer first.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.