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.
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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.
Never dress down for the poor. They won’t respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
First be best, then be first.
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.
Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
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.
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we’re preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.
Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894… A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
The food wasn’t very good in the first kitchen I ever worked in. But it was very busy, so I learnt to be fast, absorb pressure, use a knife, and say, ‘Yes, chef.’
I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.
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.
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.
The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
In 1978, the first flag was organic everything. It did have eight colors: the six colors of the rainbow we see today plus hot pink and turquoise. But pretty quickly on I realized that I would never be able to satisfy the demand for them by hand-dying fabric and these colors.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.
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.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.
By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.
You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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.
Your first projects aren’t the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn – you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.
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.
Fans insult me and call me ‘monkey.’ At first, I was quite shocked, but now I do not give it importance.
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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 rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
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.
