First They Quotes

#1. I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: 'South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.

Bill Hader

#2. I knew those fuckers were smarter than they appeared. Dammit, first they're runners, now they're climbers. They're breaking all the fucking zombie rules! Juan looked personally insulted by this development.

Rhiannon Frater

#3. First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

Peter Ellis

#4. Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Perry Brass

#5. He didn't notice me at first. They never do. That's one of the things about being plain - you often get ignored.

Samantha Warren

#6. Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.

Walter Raleigh

#8. Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

Bernard Levin

#9. In the words of Euripides, 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad'.

Catharine Arnold

#10. If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

Jerry Coleman

#11. Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

John Waters

#12. Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy ... And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220

Rainbow Rowell

#13. Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.

Ernie J Zelinski

#14. You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.

Dave Ramsey

#15. Certain things have to happen before other things. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board, and look all over the place for the dice.

Terry Pratchett

#16. I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

Tupac Shakur

#17. There are only 2 reasons that someone would want something in their life and not get it. First, they don't know what to do and second, they know what to do and don't know how to get themselves to do it consistently, if at all.

Marshall Sylver

#18. First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - GANDHI

Tony Hsieh

#19. At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

Criss Jami

#20. My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

Emma Bonino

#21. I'm sorry, those pictures from the Abu Ghraib. At first, they, like infuriated me, I was sad. Then like, a couple days later, after they cut the guy's head off, they didn't seem like much. And now, I like to trade them with my friends.

Dennis Miller

#22. It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Tony Benn

#23. Jesus always colored outside of the lines here, extending grace and healing to those well beyond His people group. He often healed people first; they believed second.

Jen Hatmaker

#24. What is it artists do?" And I mumbled something. "They do two things," he said. "First, they admit they can't straighten out the whole universe. And then second, they make at least one little part of it exactly as it should be. A blob of clay, a square of canvas, a piece of paper, or whatever.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. Meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl. ISBN 0-06-441014-5 - ISBN 0-06-029642-9 (lib.

Lemony Snicket

#26. Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. "If the water is dark," goes a German aphorism, "the lake must be deep." Instead of using good words like smart, they choose sophisticated or erudite.

Paul J. Silvia

#27. The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

Marilyn Monroe

#28. First, they came for the bigots, and I said nothing, because I didn't believe I was a bigot, then ... it was really nice, it turned out it was the bigots who'd been the main issue. We just all went out and had a lovely picnic together.

Robin Ince

#29. First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes.

David Brooks

#30. We can only speculate why, but physically abusive parents seem to share certain characteristics. First, they have an appalling lack of impulse control.

Susan Forward

#31. Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod,
They have left unstained, what there they found,-
Freedom to worship God.

Felicia Hemans

#32. That night, he laid in his bed thinking about all the possibilities. They came like waves in his mind. At first they came slow, then gradually built up speed, cresting into full on dreams, until finally, they broke onto the shore with all of their reality. First dreams, then nightmares.

Brian Joyce

#33. If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you're supposed to find the corners first. They are the beginning.

Claire Legrand

#34. The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.

Robert McChesney

#35. First they taught us not to trust them. Then they taught us not to trust each other. Now, they're teaching us we can't even trust ourselves.

Rick Yancey

#36. At first they hadn't been so bad, but little by little ... his daddy thought about drinking a lot more. Sometimes he was angry at Mommy and didn't know why. He went around wiping his lips with his handkerchief and his eyes were far away and cloudy.

Stephen King

#37. The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance.

Paul Goodman

#38. First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#39. Everyone knows that when advancing into danger, the soprano goes first. They are your infantry, while the altos and tenors are your cavalry, and the bass your artillery.

Rick Riordan

#40. Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#41. It seemed as if the train would never depart. Local trains are always somehow overzealous. At first they panic everyone into believing they are just about to thunder off down the track with an almighty jolt, then, at the very last minute, there is always some improbable hitch.

Dezso Kosztolanyi

#42. All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.

Karl Ernst Von Baer

#43. So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.

Chuck Zito

#44. Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

John C. Maxwell

#45. Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt ... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

Fujio Mitarai

#46. First they burned her - that was last month. Actually just two weeks ago. Now they're starvng him. When he's dead, they'll burn him too.
Oh, how jolly. All this burning of family members in the summertime.

Lydia Davis

#47. Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

Patti Smith

#48. Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]

Michel De Montaigne

#49. First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Margaret Cavendish

#51. Gandhi put it this way: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Jeff Olson

#52. All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

Richard Adams

#53. The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Norman Granz

#54. Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

Cormac McCarthy

#55. But they would be offering Krishna Consciousness, the highest and rarest gift, and intelligent people would gradually appreciate this, even if at first they scoffed. By

Dinatarini Devi

#56. If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.

Martin Rees

#57. At first, they would walk in silence, then their voices

Barbara Demick

#58. First they applaud you. Now you have become VICTIM. Just to get their applause, you will lie more and more. You will start fulfilling their expectations and you will become more and more unreal. This is a vicious cycle.

Osho

#59. 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

#60. At first they'd thought the guillotine would be a sweet, clean business, but when you have twenty, perhaps thirty heads to take off in a day, there are problems of scale.

Hilary Mantel

#61. Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.

John Mica

#62. The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

Laozi

#63. So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy ... for all people." ... That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.

Walter Wangerin

#64. In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

Iggy Pop

#65. Just as Huckleberry Finn was published, the first generation of African Americans raised in the postslavery era began to come of age. Among them were people with musical talent, and at first they went to work in minstrelsy, in the well-worn patterns of show business they'd inherited.

Dennis McNally

#66. If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

Stephen Covey

#67. I played for a lot of teams in my career, and I check all their results every Saturday, or at least the ones who haven't gone bust. But it's always Hearts first. They're the club who've really seeped into me.

Drew Busby

#68. Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

Arthur Helps

#69. Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.

Ellen Goodman

#70. This was one of the secret jokes about marriage. People turned out to be exactly the opposite of how they'd seemed at first; they then went on changing randomly, as though enacting a hypothesis of unceasing chaos.

Anjali Joseph

#71. A person can want love all they want, but if they don't figure out who they are and learn to love their own self first, they'll never stay in love.

Marilyn Grey

#72. First they burn the books, and then the bodies follow

Kane X. Faucher

#73. The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

Swami Vivekananda

#74. Creators start at the end. First they have an idea of what they want to create. Sometimes this is idea is general, and sometimes it is specific. Before you can create what you want you want to create, you must know what you are after, what you want to bring into being.

Robert Fritz

#75. Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

Joe Montana

#76. talking about their belief in Bitcoin's eventual success (and perhaps with a bit of angst over their skewering in The Social Network): "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then you win.

Kashmir Hill

#77. Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their car, so they're in control and you can't escape. Then they drive you someplace in the middle of nowhere.

Flynn Meaney

#78. Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

Neil Gaiman

#79. Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

Dixie Carter

#80. Everyone wanted security, but first they wanted to feel more threatened.

Goncalo M. Tavares

#81. People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.

Drew Barrymore

#82. I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.

Charles Comiskey

#83. People should riot for their freedom but first they have to understand who they are and how they are ruled.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#84. Nice people never fucking finished first, they usually got shit on until they grew some balls. She

Michelle Hughes

#85. Their backs were to me, and the vampire hadn't seen me yet I loosened the coiled chain so a good three feet of it swung free. Who to attack first? They were both small and vicious.
I remembered Mack's contemptuous dismissal and the fact that he never left me a tip. Mack first.

Charlaine Harris

#86. The people who succeed despite depression do three things. First, they seek an understanding of what's happening. They they accept that this is a permanent situation. And then they have to transcend their experience and grow from it and put themselves out into the world of real people.

Andrew Solomon

#87. Lust and flirting are dangerous because at first they are not noticeable.

Sunday Adelaja

#88. One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

Terry Pratchett

#89. There's a reason why you never see large-chested women finishing marathons first. They've been beaten to death by their breasts around Mile 5. It ain't pretty.

Dawn Dais

#90. First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.'

Bill Maher

#91. Two reasons why I keep helping people who do not even care about their own life:
First, they do not have any idea about better way of life;
Second, I was one of them.

Toba Beta

#92. President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

Michelle Malkin

#93. First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

Gail Collins

#94. Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

Michael W. Smith

#95. How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

Nina Berberova

#96. With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

Matisyahu

#97. Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

Julian Assange

#98. Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on,
First they're guilty, now they're gone!

Chuck D

#99. Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

Claes Oldenburg

#100. It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination.

Thornton Wilder