Quotes about firsts
firsts
Find first, seek later. Jean Cocteau
firsts instinct impulse
The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes. George Carlin
firsts slave advantage
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. Frederick Douglass
firsts finals fundamentals
Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning. Felix Klein
firsts might instance
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. Ferdinand Lassalle
firsts duty constant
To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard. Ferdinand Foch
firsts first-time wanted
Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do. Felix Baumgartner
firsts goodness reverence
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. George Eliot
firsts taught twelve
But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself. Geoffrey Chaucer
firsts second-place
There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing. Gabe Paul
firsts culture valve
The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.' Gabe Newell
firsts goes-on truth-is
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
firsts process wells
First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures. George J. Mitchell
firsts
He that riseth first, is first drest. George Herbert
firsts photographer forget
Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. Christopher Anderson
firsts hundred first-time
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time. Christian Morgenstern
firsts sin seems
Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings. J. C. Ryle
firsts comfort cliche
First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning. Jeff Lindsay
firsts cards students
My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. Jim Carrey
firsts succeed loser
If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers. Jerry Lawler
firsts principles emotion
emotion is first of all and in principle an accident Jean-Paul Sartre
firsts appearance weak
Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak. Georges Bernanos
firsts deceiving cheat
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too. George Zimmerman
firsts taste good-taste
Good taste consists first upon fitness. George William Curtis
firsts persons areas
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. Georges Bataille
firsts stories accepted
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' George Saunders
firsts speak
...smile first, then speak.
firsts tickets birth
Birth is life's first lottery ticket. Jeffrey Archer
firsts lasts gym
If you're not first, you're last.
firsts faces tyranny
The face of tyranny Is always mild at first. Jean Racine
firsts tasks logic
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning. Jean Piaget
firsts charity selflessness
Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche
firsts fans stadiums
When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it George Best