Firsts Quotations | Page 2

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.

I did a picture for the First Barbie doll box.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create.

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

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.

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model...

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence.

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

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.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.