Top 100 First The Quotes
#1. First, the behavior should not follow directly from present needs and desires. Second, it should prepare the individual for a future situation in a different context than the current one. The girl needed a spoon not in bed, but at the chocolate pudding party she expected in her dream.11
Frans De Waal
#2. First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the simplest, then the complex, then the more complex. And then only can you relax at the ultimate core.
Rajneesh
#3. My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.
Scott Rigell
#4. To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years
to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#5. When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.
George MacDonald
#6. Georgie was done kissing first. The next person she kissed was going to have to do all the work. Assuming she ever found anybody who thought she was worth it.
Rainbow Rowell
#7. Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
Alice Cooper
#8. There are two different types of prototyping. First, the gut sense. You know how far you can take it. Second, you need experts to figure out whether or not it is attainable.
Tony Fadell
#9. As soon as he was gone I blew my breath out and leaned back against the wall. Awkward. First the cop who'd arrested me, then the paramedic who'd kept me from accidentally killing myself. I didn't even want to think what a third thing might be.
Diana Rowland
#10. Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.
William J.H. Boetcker
#11. Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
Bernard Beckett
#12. Moreover, in those instances where the political success of a minority group has come first, the result has often been slower socioeconomic progress.
Jason L. Riley
#13. We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.
Charlotte Mew
#14. It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve
Plato
#15. Causality was no longer the hidden demiurge that ruled the universe: down was up, the last was the first, the end was the beginning. Heraclitus had been resurrected from his dung heap, and what he had to show us was the simplest of truths: reality was a yo-yo, change was the only constant.
Paul Auster
#16. What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.
Paul Graham
#17. We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.
Anatoly Berezovoy
#18. Seek first the kingdom of heaven WITHIN, whereby lies an abundance of treasures and resources that you need
Lisa Washington
#19. The truth is this: People that give you focus, energy and anger do care. If you were nothing then you wouldn't be able to affect them. Behind every over reaction was first the thought that your opinion mattered and your respect was once of value or you wouldn't get the response you got.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
John Green
#22. Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.
David Cameron
#23. The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?
Lance Armstrong
#24. Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
Desiderius Erasmus
#25. You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside.
Sebastian Coe
#26. No, I just wanted to recapture the incredibly vivid love we'd had at first- the love I'd shared with the tall man standing next to me, with the man I adored.
Banana Yoshimoto
#27. One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations.
Ada Lovelace
#28. In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important rule of and successful illusion; First the people must want to believe it.
Libba Bray
#29. Sassenach. He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.
Diana Gabaldon
#30. First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.
Jim Cooper
#31. The Mohammedans will rise up and will affect first, the area of Portugal, Spain, and Gibraltar affecting many people.
Bruce Cyr
#32. You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
Karl Lagerfeld
#33. It is very good to see thousands of new teachers, so that with our thoughts, we can gradually change the world -send peace to the world. That's the best contribution to world peace-first the students should find their peace, and then they share with the other students.
Dharma Mittra
#34. 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
#35. But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
Joseph Rotblat
#36. Which came first - the observer or the particle?
Vanna Bonta
#37. War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
Karl Kraus
#38. Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.
Herbert Simon
#39. I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
Avicii
#40. With your reorientation as awareness, difficulty calls upon your resources - not first the resources that you're familiar with, but the resources of your own being.
John De Ruiter
#41. First the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.
Stephen King
#42. 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
#43. The question is
Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?
Melvin B. Tolson
#44. In the States of New England, from the first, the condition of the poor was provided for;
Alexis De Tocqueville
#45. I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
Macklemore
#46. How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.
Smith Wigglesworth
#47. Christianity proclaimed from the first the equality of all men and women before God.
Pope John Paul II
#48. Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#49. As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first, the public, and particularly its religious portion, denounced the rising doubts as atheism.
John William Draper
#50. The first, the middle and the last thing to do is to pray.
Henry B. Eyring
#51. No one is the object of another man's contempt, unless he is first the object of his own.
Seneca.
#52. It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
Edgar Allan Poe
#53. Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second ... You see the sequence.
Paul Gauguin
#54. as well as Biblically. First, the Negro's black skin is not the mark of Cain as so many, even some preachers, claim. If that were true, that would make the Negro our distant cousin, distant but still part of the same family. They are not part of the human race, distant or otherwise. Don't
Michael Edwin Q.
#55. Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.
Francis Bacon
#56. The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#57. It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.
Cassandra Clare
#58. At first the difference will be in whatever atmosphere I bring into it. It's not going to be like, 'I really want to do The Daily Show and I'd love to turn it into an abstract musical.' I like the format and the chance to satirize the news.
Jon Stewart
#59. Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#60. At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
Edward Rowland Sill
#61. 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
#62. They set off. Marianne had at first the advantage, but a false step brought her suddenly to the ground; and Margaret, unable to stop herself to assist her, was involuntarily hurried along, and reached the bottom in safety.
Jane Austen
#64. In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
Warren Buffett
#65. 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
#66. When you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, Matthew 6:33, there becomes no need to seek yet another kingdom.
Paul Halbeck
#67. From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia
Paulo Freire
#68. Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
Tom Stoppard
#69. I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him.
Dwight L. Moody
#70. On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.
Thomas Paine
#71. If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.
Gene Simmons
#72. 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.
Mother Teresa
#73. Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
Mary Oliver
#74. There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.
Pope Leo XIII
#75. Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people.
Frank Fools Crow
#76. At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.
Seth Godin
#77. At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
Chuck Palahniuk
#78. As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger.
Karen Thompson Walker
#79. In life, the test comes first, the lesson later.
E.J. Squires
#80. The idea should come first, the startup should come second.
Sam Altman
#81. We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
#82. Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about.
Ismail Haniyeh
#83. Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
Taylor Swift
#84. Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.
William Blake
#85. At first, the tornado is nearly invisible. Against the sky, it's white on white.
Greg MacGillivray
#86. Depression simply is. It has no beginning and no end, no boundaries and no world outside itself. It is the first, the last, the only, the alpha and the omega. Memories of better times die upon its desolate shores. Voices drown in its seas. The mind becomes its own prisoner.
Alexis Hall
#87. And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.
Oscar Wilde
#88. But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
Ann Voskamp
#89. Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement
Bret Harte
#90. Don't go into business with the sole objective of making lot of money. If you put service, quality, and customer satisfaction first-the money will follow.
Paul Clitheroe
#91. At first the solitude
charmed me like a prelude,
but so much music wounded me.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#92. Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small forces as an earnest of good intentions, heedless of their gross inadequacy for the military purpose at hand.
Max Hastings
#93. There are two men in me
one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second ... the second?
Mikhail Lermontov
#94. First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#95. Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.
Peter T. King
#96. 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
#97. The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.
James Madison
#98. At first the shifts in gravity from room to room were disturbing, but I soon adapted, subconsciously bracing myself for the drag of Lusus and Hebron and Sol Draconi Septem, unconsciously anticipating the less than l-standard-g freedom of the majority of the rooms. In
Dan Simmons
#99. First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.
George J. Mitchell
#100. For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"
Robert Burns
