If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said ‘the ugly girl’.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Every son’s first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
I first paid attention to fashion when I was around 15, but I don’t really care much about it these days.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
We need to understand that whatever we do, we’re all human beings first.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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.
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.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren’t doing it right.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Before you can do something you must first be something.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
There are only two classes – first class and no class.
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
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.
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.
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.
Cricket is my first love.
I think the first duty of society is justice.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Prenups are so unromantic – a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness – you’re fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
Sometimes I wish my first word was ‘quote,’ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‘end quote.’
If at first you don’t succeed, get a bigger hammer.
For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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.
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.’
Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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.
I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The first and great commandment is, don’t let them scare you.
The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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.
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
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.
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 first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
I always said that to get India stronger, first strengthen its roots, and all our roots are our country’s interiors, rural areas, and villages.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
The first thing I heard when I got in the business – not from my mentor – was, ‘Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.’ I’m here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.
My first thing was a McDonald’s commercial.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
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.
