In this post, you will find great First Quotes from famous people, such as Eddie Van Halen, Milton Friedman, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Barack Obama, Benjamin Franklin. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed?
Well, in the first place, military service, they don’t call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that’s all part of how I express my identity.
One of the most important actions, things a leader can do, is to lead by example. If you want everyone else to be passionate, committed, dedicated, and motivated, you go first!
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
My father taught me, in boxing, that when you – particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time – you’re going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.
No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
Real heroes don’t wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes! Real superheroes are members of our military, law enforcement, and first responders. Pretend superheroes wear capes!
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.
My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
I’m Italian; I take my time. We’re not really fast. We’re very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I’m so curious as to what’s next!
By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Remember the first rule of gunfighting… ‘have a gun.’
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
I’m a defender first and foremost – blocks, headers, vital tackles, or even just the communication side of it, which is massive but doesn’t really get recognised.
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
I’m here to break boundaries, man. That’s all. I’m here to be the first so that the people after me don’t have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
Let some people get rich first.
Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
Making a strong first impression is as important as ever, especially when meeting face-to-face.
Saath Saath’ was my first big mistake!
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me – it’s like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you’ve moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.
The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
My first thing was a McDonald‘s commercial.
Never dress down for the poor. They won’t respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said ‘the ugly girl’.
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it’s still our deepest longing – but it’s now also our deepest fear.
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.
My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
The Iowa Women’s Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the first place.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.
First and foremost, it’s my mom and dad who gave me the foundation, the belief in me that I could do anything.
I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.
I’m the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time… for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‘Justice to all. Appeasement to none.’ This is our secularism.
It’s very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that’s not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It’s a gut feeling.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
I just don’t believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I’ve based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It’s something that I’ve always exploited – with good results.
I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
When Hindustan Motors rolled out the first Ambassador Car in 1957 its sturdy body, rounded contours and Mother Earth simplicity immediately bagged it a place in our collective consciousness.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always be clear that the example is set at the top.
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything – meals, jobs, clothing.
Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I’m just cynical.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
It just doesn’t go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.
People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you’ll build a great team.
I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
I can’t really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.
Coy Wire played in the NFL for 9 years and is now a motivational speaker and has a book out called ‘Change Your Mind.’ He is an amazing person with such positive energy! When Kroy and I first met and started dating, there weren’t a whole lot of people that supported us, but Coy always did.
There are only two classes – first class and no class.
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
I think I did a pretty good job – particularly when I was racing with Hakkinen. It was maybe the first time that I have been challenging with the big boys, and I really enjoyed it.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. ‘If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. ‘Rent’ was that place for me.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
I don’t think I’ve had love at first sight. But, I’ve definitely had moments where I’ve seen a person, and I’m like, ‘Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.’
If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That’s the ‘halo effect.’ Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.
Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it’s OK.
First rule of change is controversy. You can’t get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.
I got a lot of great life lessons from the entertainment industry. The first was being able to feel comfortable taking risks.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
I was born in Orange County – in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I’m sorry, I don’t rep California.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Second place is just the first place loser.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.
The first duty of love is to listen.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
It’s the first war we’ve ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That’s the rhetorical position we occupy.
A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I’ve always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.
I believe in love at first sight and hindsight.
The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment… the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
First be best, then be first.
I’m a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective – I feel things first, and then I think them through – and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel‘s nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word ‘Alzheimer‘s disease.’
We’re going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we’ve got to reduce the world population 90 percent.
The first hundred years are the hardest.
The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
I was 17 and out of school, living with my mom, starving, not eating, getting locked up, no focus, no guidance. When you ain’t got no guidance, you can’t do too much. But then I had my first son and started working. I got the right people around me.
If at first you don’t succeed, blame your parents.
I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you’re putting the most important things first.
Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, ‘The Art of Captaincy.’ I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don’t make you good captains.
Sometimes I wish my first word was ‘quote,’ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‘end quote.’
We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that’s a big deal. And if you’re going to be a leader – if you’re a leader and you’re the smartest guy in the world – in the room, you’ve got real problems.
You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
First feelings are always the most natural.
A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.
You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.
Trust is the first step to love.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn’t good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
First appearance deceives many.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.
There is no such thing as second place. Either you’re first or you’re nothing.
If you have not first pondered the entire situation of the man whom you wish to help, and if you have not brought with you instructions for him to follow henceforth in leading his life, he will not receive great good from your help.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
‘The bigtime for you is just around the corner.’ They told me that first in 1952 – boy, it’s been a long corner. If I don’t hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I’m gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients‘ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you’ve got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.
In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
You learn a lot when you’re barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
Every time I dive, I feel an adrenaline rush like I did that first time. Until my body fails on me, I will keep going.
I personally believe that if you love someone, and you get your heart broken, and you can learn to love someone else just as deeply as the first, then that is the greatest lesson we can learn on this planet.
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there’s always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt.
I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.
I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we’re preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
All first responders do noble work, and all of them deserve our respect and our appreciation.
Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
A first love always occupies a special place.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren’t laughing, it’s not comedy. It’s as simple as that.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
The first wealth is health.
My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
I’ll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
A child’s first teacher is its mother.
The first and great commandment is, don’t let them scare you.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.
I don’t think there’s anything like love at first sight. What happens is actually lust at first sight.
A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Without my services, Pakistan would never have been the first Muslim nuclear nation. We were able to achieve the capability under very tough circumstances, but we did it.
I’ve always put my family first and that’s just the way it is.
If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
We need to understand that whatever we do, we’re all human beings first.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.
The first step… shall be to lose the way.
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it’s a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it’s the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
Asking questions is the first way to begin change.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
With Romeo and Juliet, you’re talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn’t happened to me yet.
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I’m a night owl.
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
I now believe in love at first sight. Especially after it’s happened to me.
I have always been very calm on the outside. I’m not too stressed now just because I’m in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don’t want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
