First And Then Quotes

#1. If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.

Katherine Anne Porter

#2. Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.

Ansen Dibell

#3. Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

Sid Meier

#4. Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

Seneca The Younger

#5. I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

Colm Meaney

#6. If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

Yossi Vardi

#7. My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.

John Krasinski

#8. My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

Edith Sitwell

#9. The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.

Thomas Cleary

#10. In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

Carmen Electra

#12. Life is a cruel teacher. It punishes you first, and then gives you the lesson.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#13. That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched its whole magnificence for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sun light, and set out to become what I became.

Anne Rice

#14. The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

Sophie Swetchine

#15. A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there.

Annette Bening

#16. But next time, we need to kind of ... oh, I don't know, talk first and then throw people through windows later." Daemon crossed his arms. "Can we try that?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#17. Remembering that moment stirs something inside -- anger, at first, and then a deep, hollow sadness that ripples through me in its own spiderweb pattern.

Jeff Garvin

#18. I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

B.J. Novak

#19. - Have you ever written the ending of the story first and then the rest of it?
- Hell no, I've never had an orgasm before having sex.

Enkelejd Lamaj

#20. The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?

Barack Obama

#21. Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.

David C. Novak

#22. There's just a misconception that comes with being a dual-threat quarterback. You run first, throw second. I've proven I throw first and then run if I have to.

Robert Griffin III

#23. Timbaland's so wishy-washy sometimes - he'll hate a song at first and then love it, and then maybe go back to not liking it as much as something else.

Keri Hilson

#24. 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

#25. Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Barbara Kingsolver

#26. Rest, let your body relax and grow. Work up gradually and don't blow it. Sometimes you can do so much your mind gets sick of it. Remember what I said earlier: Keep your mind hungry. People have a tendency to overdo things at first and then sluff off.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#27. At first. And then eventually it's realized that all that annoyance and mistrust is actually romantic tension.

Kasie West

#28. He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words exist in the mind first and then go to the voice and sit temporarily inside ears, and if words are conveyed through sign language, they exist in the motion of hands.

Rita Leganski

#29. Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"
but,

Lewis Carroll

#30. Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Beth Kephart

#31. All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

Ellsworth Kelly

#32. Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.

Lemar

#33. For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Brian Eno

#34. Kill first and then say, Gosh, were you actually good? My duh!

Kresley Cole

#35. The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

Anthony Trollope

#36. 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

#37. Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.

Max Brooks

#38. I will only purchase what fits me. If I want to lose weight, I do that first and then go shopping.

Marie Kondo

#39. Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

Buddy DeFranco

#40. I always put a layer of lip balm first, and then I layer the lipstick on by using a lip brush to help get it into the whole lip and make a really even line.

Gracie Gold

#41. Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

Saint Augustine

#42. It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.

Samuel I. Prime

#43. You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

Harry Shearer

#44. We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

John Piper

#45. Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.

Chris Wooding

#46. Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

Emeli Sande

#47. Be it unto you, even as you believe.
In God's economy, we believe first and then see.

Joyce Meyer

#48. I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

Elton John

#49. The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.

Ismail Haniyeh

#50. People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luther

#51. The Western church needs to regain its confidence in the role of outsiders, relocators who come in humility and grace to learn first and then to offer a different perspective.

Craig Greenfield

#52. I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

Barry Venison

#53. It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

Donald Byrd

#54. Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles

Sunday Adelaja

#55. I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

Richelle Mead

#56. Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Paola Antonelli

#57. The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.

Swami Vivekananda

#58. He knocks once against the side. I don't get it at first, and then I laugh.
Let's establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you'd like to come in.
"Yes, Evan." I'm laughing so hard, it's starting to hurt. "You can come in.

Rick Yancey

#59. And there is a giant whoosh of light. A smash of noise. And time stops. And then it turns over, thinks a bit, and begins spooling backwards, slow at first . . . And then it speeds up.

J.K. Rowling

#60. Peter spoke indignantly. "You don't think I would kill him while he was sleeping! I would wake him first, and then kill him. That's the way I always do." "I say! Do you kill many?" "Tons!

J.M. Barrie

#61. Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.

Gus Van Sant

#62. We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

D. Elton Trueblood

#63. We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

W. Averell Harriman

#64. Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

Mark Kelly

#65. Do not postpone your happiness to "achievement" of goals.
It is not worth postponing your happiness, even for a moment ...
Learn to "be happy" first, and then go about achieving your goals ...

Manoj Arora

#66. You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.

Roberto Orci

#67. I'm going to fuck you slow at first and then hard." - Bryce Van Der Linden (Exposed, Unbearable Passion, #3)

Scarlett Avery

#68. Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Charles Caleb Colton

#69. We want the right people, the ones who love to play football. I want a guy who, if I punch him in the mouth, doesn't stand there and say, ?Why did you punch me?' I want the guy who punches me back first, and then asks me why I did it.

Matt Millen

#70. You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

Al Franken

#71. Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.

Thalia

#72. In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

Aesop

#73. Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence.

Dada Bhagwan

#74. For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?

Tony Lewis

#75. But it would be safer for you to patrol Starkville first and then head back this way. (Celena)
And I was a pirate who laughed as he died and spat in the face of my killer. Safety's not my concern. (Rafael)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#76. Master water first and then paint.

Joshua L. Goldberg

#77. Work first, and then rest.

John Ruskin

#78. My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

Jim Carrey

#79. Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#80. Penetrate the Mysteries
"If you ever hope to penetrate the mysteries of the universe,
you've got to buy her a drink first and then pretend you're listening.

Beryl Dov

#81. I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

Marlee Matlin

#82. I once read that you fell in love like how you fell asleep: slowly at first and then all at once.

Emma Scott

#83. He tried to turn me into a buffet?" I gritted my teeth. "Before he killed me? He couldn't kill me first and then eat me? That's just fucking rude.

Rob Thurman

#84. For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.

Milford Zornes

#85. Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#86. I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

Ice-T

#87. Veronika was disconcerted at first and then realized that she had nothing to lose. She was dead; what was the point of continuing to feed the fears or preconceptions that had always limited her life?

Paulo Coelho

#88. Food comes first and then morality
Bertolt brecht

Bertolt Brecht

#89. What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue

Rudyard Kipling

#90. They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!

Osho

#91. 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

#92. Come first and then I'd like to fuck you hard.

J.A. Huss

#93. Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

Joseph Cook

#94. I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

Damian Loeb

#95. Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Thomas Jefferson

#96. When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

#97. The thoughts you think and the way you feel are at the center of what you attract. Rather than looking for things outside of you that cause you to feel better, it is much easier to decide to feel better first and then attract, from the outside, things that do.

Esther Hicks

#98. Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

#99. Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.

Ian Hutchinson

#100. Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Thomas A Kempis