Top 100 But First Quotes
#1. To Borody and a small band of like-minded brethren who believe in the power of poop, we are standing at the threshold of a new era in medicine. Borody sees the benefits of fecal therapy as "equivalent to the discovery of antibiotics." But first, there is much skepticism to overcome.
Steven D. Levitt
#2. You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.
Pat Benatar
#3. We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.
Debbie Stabenow
#4. We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.
Charlotte Mew
#5. My hour at last has come;
Yet not ingloriously or passively
I die, but first will do some valiant deed,
Of which mankind shall hear in after time.
Homer
#6. I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace.
Malala Yousafzai
#7. Gravity Falls is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.
Alex Hirsch
#8. I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you.
Charles Manson
#9. Psalm 46: 10 tells us there is a kind of knowing that comes in silence and not in words-but first we must be still.
The Hebrew word translated "Be still" literally means "Let go of your grip.
Ruth Haley Barton
#10. He needed to go back to Pink Lips, but first he needed to deal with his brother's betrayal.
Leo Sullivan
#11. But first consider how much more sparing and patient of hardship the poor are than we.
Epictetus
#12. We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
John F. Kennedy
#13. [I]t's seeing the invisible problem, not just the obvious problem, that's important, not just for product design, but for everything we do. You see, there are invisible problems all around us, ones we can solve. But first we need to see them, to feel them. - T
Bernadette Jiwa
#15. I challenge you to destroy whatever roadblock is keeping you from moving forward. Destroy it with your physical body if you must, but first, destroy it with a power greater than a nuclear bomb - the power of your mind. Think it gone and it will go.
Toni Sorenson
#16. He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok with.
Tayari Jones
#17. Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Paulo Coelho
#18. Right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.
Hunter S. Thompson
#19. We should - ' 'And we will.' Laurent turned to him, sliding fingers into his hair. 'But first, we have the morning.' *
C.S. Pacat
#20. I made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed.
Shel Silverstein
#21. It is a fine thing, to set your sights on crystal towers and golden thrones," Hans Peter said quietly. "But first you had better see what lurks within those towers, and what sits on those thrones.
Jessica Day George
#22. He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.
Hal Borland
#23. I await the revises, and promise you not to 'make my quietus with a bare bodkin' till I have returned them. After that, I think of retiring. But first I would like to dine with you here. To leave life as one leaves a feast is not merely philosophy but romance.
Oscar Wilde
#24. Now is the time ... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.
Ron Atchison
#25. Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better.
Patrick Stump
#26. What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal.
John S. Watson
#27. The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.
Giambattista Bodoni
#28. You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.
George R R Martin
#29. The truth will set u free but first it will piss u off
Albert Borris
#30. There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post.
Andrew Matthews
#31. We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
Terry Brooks
#32. Our concepts or ideas form the mental housing in which we live. We may end up proud of the structures we have built. Or we may believe that they need dismantling and starting afresh. But first, we have to know what they are.
Simon Blackburn
#33. Sure," I said. "But first I have a question for you. 'Do ut des'.
Jason Luke
#34. But first I had to get through the ironing. It took a lot of patience. I had none. It took forever, and then I had to press the whole shirt again to get out the creases I'd pressed into it.
Jennifer Echols
#35. Life is like a game of chess ... there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move ... where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves ... but first you have to make some kind of move.
Mort Walker
#36. Find yourself. And if you don't like what you see, re-create yourself. But first, please, find yourself.
Akif Kichloo
#37. Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
Robert G. Ingersoll
#38. We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams
Stephen King
#39. I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.
Matisyahu
#40. A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself.
Sri Aurobindo
#41. TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.
Napoleon Hill
#42. I did it. Who leaves a message like that? Who is so paranoid that they have to be so cryptic? If this wasn't day one of my Summer of Nothing, I might be in a hurry to figure this out. but first: breakfast.
Julie Halpern
#43. One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.
James Callis
#44. I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
#45. But first, become aware of the choices that you are making in every moment. The more you become aware of your choices, the more you will make choices that are spontaneously correct - both for you and for those around you.
Deepak Chopra
#46. At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
Joseph Kanon
#47. Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.
Ellen Key
#48. When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!
Tom Lehrer
#49. Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being ... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
Edvard Munch
#50. Francis Ford Coppola observed, "The way to come to power is not always to merely challenge the Establishment, but first make a place in it and then challenge and double-cross the Establishment.
Adam M. Grant
#51. Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it' ... but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.
Dennis Miller
#52. Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.
Billy Cannon
#53. And this is the mission of the church
not civilization, but salvation
not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but first, the "kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#54. What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.
Pope Benedict XVI
#56. Remember, no matter how dark the night, there is always a happy ending. But first, you have to make it through the night.
L.J.Smith
#57. Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.
Marilynne Robinson
#59. I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist.
It's possible that he is already aware, if only in a 'don't step on the small girl' kind of way.
Laini Taylor
#60. But first, I want the pleasure of telling you that you are fired. I fire you. I fire you and all your relatives. I fire your ancestors and your descendants. I fire the very air you breathe and the ground you walk upon.
Z.A. Maxfield
#62. Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Mark Victor Hansen
#63. The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.
Vladimir Kramnik
#64. The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first ... I want to watch it suffer.
Brad Stine
#65. And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.
Jennie Finch
#66. But first I need to use your privy. Since I turned fifty-five or so, seems like I have to wee on every bush.
Anonymous
#68. People should riot for their freedom but first they have to understand who they are and how they are ruled.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#69. I was only going to stay six months. I stayed three years, and I never stopped thinking about leaving. But when I left, I left my entire life behind. I have to explain to you why I no longer live in New York, but first I have to explain to myself why I stayed so long.
Eula Biss
#70. But first he was going to eat her until he made her come really,really hard.He leaned in close and breathed her in.Then he licked.So.Fucking.Good.
Lauren Dane
#71. One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#72. Lead by example. Require strength, but first show it.
Robert Jordan
#73. Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.
D.W. Winnicott
#74. A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.
Richard Rodgers
#75. I just broke up with my girlfriend. My wife will be pleased. But first she'll be displeased, because she didn't know I had a girlfriend.
Jarod Kintz
#76. But first, I wanted to make her sweat a little. Then I wanted to make her sweat a lot
Melanie Harlow
#77. But first I want you to tell me this: do you know the power of love? Christ passed over all the marvellous works which were to be performed by the apostles and said, By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another.
John Chrysostom
#78. I've got no bone to pick with science, but first off I'm a man of faith. If you're using science to put limits on what God can accomplish with a person, that's where we part ways.
Regina Jennings
#79. If you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true
Meindert DeJong
#80. But first my feet will freeze and then
my legs and then my insides, they will all turn to ice. And my blood, too, and
my heart, and I will forget.
Paullina Simons
#81. I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.
Mitch Hedberg
#82. I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.
Lord Byron
#83. I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.
Jens Lekman
#84. But tell me, I beseech you, what man is that would submit his neck to the noose of wedlock, if, as wise men should, he did but first truly weigh the inconvenience of the thing? Or
Erasmus
#85. One boy took a peppermint from a woman's satin evening clutch but first held it up discreetly for consent. She moved her head down and back, just a quarter of an inch, and he smiled and slipped off the cellophane.
Ann Patchett
#86. beast. But first I detour toward the lanai and plop myself on a chaise. The sun is high up in the afternoon sky, not a cloud in sight. People have crowded the beach, just little colorful dots against the white sand. The ocean stretches as far the horizon without any islands visible ahead,
Kendal Taylor
#87. Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command!
John Milton
#88. 05 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
Anonymous
#89. I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
Herman Melville
#90. Everyone wanted security, but first they wanted to feel more threatened.
Goncalo M. Tavares
#91. And just for the record, I think he needed to be a little more assertive with the woman he loved. That's why he lost her to Lancelot, you know. Lack of assertiveness. A man needs to be ready to lay down his life for the woman he loves. But first he's got to let her know that she's adored.
Janice Hanna
#92. If you think he's the one, you have to take a leap. But first, torture him. It's only fair.
Jennifer Probst
#93. If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We'll see who hates best. But first, first I will destroy your hatred. Now. My hate is colder, stronger, and you'll have no hate to warm yourself. You will have nothing.
Jean Rhys
#94. An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.
Allen Lacy
#95. We're not having sex, are we?"
"No," Talia confirmed. "Don't take it the wrong way, you're by far the nicest insect I've ever spent time with, but first contact is one thing. I'm not sure my reputation can take sleeping with the first alien I meet.
Gavin G. Smith
#96. The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.
Angela Merkel
#97. I'm not asking you fight. all i need is a ride. then you can crawl back under your rock and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist all you like, but first, get your keys, little girl, we're leaving.
Dianne Sylvan
#98. It is no doubt possible to fly
but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead - but first get permit.
Robert A. Heinlein
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