Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Scott Pelley

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

Scott Aaronson

Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash equilibrium.

Lena Horne

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

Laurie Anderson

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

Laurie Halse Anderson

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

LaToya Jackson

I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

Laura Bush

I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.

Thomas Aquinas

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

Thomas Aquinas

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.

Leo Kottke

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

Lauren Hutton

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

Lewis Carroll

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Joseph Campbell

First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

Julie Kagawa

It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.

Joy Williams

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

Joyce Brothers

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

Joseph Pilates

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Julian Schnabel

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

Jules Michelet

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

Jules Feiffer

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

Joshua Lederberg

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Karl Lagerfeld

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

Kamisese Mara

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

Kanye West

Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.

Kami Garcia

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

Judy Gold

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

Paul Kantner

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

Paramahansa Yogananda

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.

Ovid

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

Otto Hahn

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

Paul McCartney

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

Patty Hearst

I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence.