The only place that matters is first.
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.
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.
After I had done the first ‘Pirates’ movie and ‘Secret Window,’ I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, ‘Oh well, let’s go see it.’ I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
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.
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Violin was my first form of expression – and is still in a lot of ways.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
I love my tattoo and I think it looks great. It’s like an old pair of jeans, it’s beat up. I remember when I first got it outlined. I’m like ‘why don’t more guys do this?’ Then I realized the pain.
The first step… shall be to lose the way.
I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it’s always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
The first thing I do when I get home is take my shoes off and go barefoot.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want, so they don’t even let themselves want it.
In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children.
Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
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.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Striving for success is healthy – but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they’re able to bounce back and move forward with ease.
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.
Cancer is something if you spot in the first few stages, it can be cured.
We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country’s first president?
I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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.
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn’t feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I’m a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn’t mean they should vote for the person I like. That’s why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Men’s indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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.
If you’re not first, you’re last.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.
