Top 100 Comes First Quotes
#1. And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.
Patrick Rothfuss
#3. Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.
Alexander MacLaren
#4. There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
Susan Isaacs
#5. You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot inquire into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first and everything else follows.
Osho
#6. It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.
James N. Frey
#8. My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.
Nick Carter
#9. I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
Faith Hill
#10. Throughout my training we always had a mantra; They come first. If I had really and truly screwed up my future, I'd have a new mantra; A comes first. Then B, C, D ...
Richelle Mead
#11. To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.
Kirk Cameron
#12. Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.
Rajneesh
#13. In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.
Garson Kanin
#14. What comes first, the chicken or the egg? You start out bad, you don't really feel right, you don't have the same explosion, then you start to lose confidence, you start to doubt your ability. It's a snowball effect.
Lance Berkman
#15. In the beginning, God ...' (Genesis 1:1).
God comes first. Before anyone else is mentioned, He is there.
Charles Cameron
#16. My hockey comes first compared to everything else.
Casey Eastham
#17. Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.
Heidi Klum
#18. My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.
Monica Bellucci
#19. From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
Bertolt Brecht
#20. Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.
John Feinstein
#21. The situation comes first ... the characters ... come next ... [then] begin to narrate ...
Stephen King
#22. Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Alan Moore
#23. As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
Laura Osnes
#25. Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years - or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first.
Jay Leno
#26. Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.
John Lennox
#27. I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
Daddy Yankee
#28. The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.
Arthur C. Clarke
#29. I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.
Harlan Ellison
#30. Family comes first, and golf is second.
Jason Day
#31. My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'
Ashley Wagner
#32. What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#33. Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#35. Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
Elijah Muhammad
#36. The overall concept comes first and then that informs the product, the shoot and how we communicate it. Everything comes back to the concept. It all gets thought about at the same time.
Karen Walker
#37. Spirit doesn't blame for work not done. Life doesn't depend on whether something gets done or not.
Work isn't the source of happiness. Your attitude toward your work, not the task itself, comes first.
Deepak Chopra
#38. At IBM everybody sells! Every employee has been trained to think that the customer comes first - everybody from the CEO, to the people in finance, to the receptionists, to those who work in manufacturing.
Buck Rodgers
#41. If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.
Norman Cousins
#42. Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.
Joe Gibbs
#43. Family comes first is indeed a powerful principle, but so is the imperative for your own development. It is not a self-explanatory or self-applying principle, and it can collide with other principles.
Edward Rocklin
#44. The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.
Jessica Bird
#45. The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about this song? Where did the melody come from? I want it to be heartfelt.
Avey Tare
#46. An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.
Ken Auletta
#47. Alice finds a packet of scotch eggs in someone's bag. And then there's nothing more to do other then to put on as many clothes as we can fit into, and wait: for the troops, sleep, or asphyxiation from pete's toxic egg farts, which ever comes first.
Kirsty McKay
#48. For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.
Gavin Hood
#49. The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
Carolyn Murphy
#50. It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#51. You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
Thom Mayne
#52. When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.
Arthur Jones
#54. A happy heart comes first, then the happy face.
Shania Twain
#55. In life, the test comes first, the lesson later.
E.J. Squires
#56. People will tell you that you have to know math to be a scientist, or physics or chemistry. They're wrong. ... What comes first is a question, and you're already there. It's not nearly as involved as people make it out to be.
Hope Jahren
#57. This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
Elizabeth Berg
#58. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles De Gaulle
#59. Why do I love him? ... I don't think love has a reason ... I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#60. Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.
Larry Gagosian
#61. In mindfulness, acceptance always comes first, change comes after.
Shamash Alidina
#62. When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'
Jill Sobule
#63. The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.
Benjamin Disraeli
#64. Whatever God approves of comes first. Whatever grieves him has to go.
Jim Cymbala
#65. Faith must precede all effort to understand. Reflection upon revealed truth naturally follows the advent of faith, but faith comes first to the hearing ear, not to the cogitating mind.
A.W. Tozer
#66. Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
Linwood Barclay
#67. I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
Ted Turner
#68. Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
Bjork
#70. Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#71. Loving yourself comes first from there everything else falls into place
Shellie Palmer
#72. I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
Yara Shahidi
#73. Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
Scott Westerfeld
#74. When will you tell him?' 'When I muster the courage or when I'm left with no choice - whichever comes first.
Renee Ahdieh
#75. I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.
Morgan Freeman
#76. I think that my interest as a creator always comes first, so I'm wondering things like "Just how free is this world?" and "Where are the boundaries?"
Hidetaka Suehiro
#77. Do not swallow anything Satan is trying to ram down your throat. Jesus comes first.
Joel Osteen
#78. The primary objective of a branding program is never the market for the product or service. The primary objective of a branding program is always the mind of the prospect. The mind comes first; the market follows where the mind leads.
Al Ries
#79. There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle ...
Andrea Dworkin
#80. I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so that they can actually be in a fiduciary capacity where the artist comes first or the client, whoever the client happens to be.
Shep Gordon
#81. So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
Thucydides
#82. My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.
Cung Le
#83. Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.
Josemaria Escriva
#84. I want you to look and think. I want every one to look and think. Half the misery in the world comes first from not looking, and then from not thinking. And I do not want you to be miserable.
Charles Kingsley
#85. Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.
Steve Chapman
#86. It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#87. Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#88. Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.
Lee Clow
#89. HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#90. And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?
Ali Smith
#91. If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
Myrtle Reed
#92. My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#93. God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
Mary J. Blige
#94. Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#96. The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.
Bob McNair
#97. I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first.
Phoebe Snow
#98. Yeah, I'm really worried. OK, so what's left on the big, big list of things I have to get done before I go insane or the world comes to end, whichever comes first?
Katie MacAlister
#99. The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame.
S.D. Smith
#100. Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.
Brad Pitt
