Make The First Move Quotes

#1. However, in order to make progress in anything, we must make the first move - from then on, our personal rhythm and intuition will show us how to conserve his energy.

Paulo Coelho

#2. I understand how families become estranged, not by design, but by embarrassment. You come to a point when so much time has passed that it seems impossible to make the first move

Michelle Richmond

#3. When in a superior bargaining position, one should never make the first move.

Jim Starlin

#4. Fun fact about life or death fights between capes. You start letting your enemies make the first move, your mortality rate triples.

Wildbow

#5. A step from the past always demands a step in the mind backed by a robust action. The very place you fall is the very place you make the first move to move.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. Never make the first move. - Loor (The Rivers of Zadaa)

D.J. MacHale

#7. Desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move

Emily Giffin

#8. 1st Valentine's Day: 200,000 BC men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move.

Kristen Schaal

#9. When it's just sex, you're allowed to be predatory, to make the first move, to entice them into bed, because it's not necessary to make them fall in love with you.

Jane Green

#10. Sometimes I wish the girl would make the first move.

Devon Werkheiser

#11. Yeh always wait fer the Hippogriff ter make the first move,' Hagrid continued. 'It's polite, see? Yeh walk towards him, and yeh bow, an' yeh wait. If he bows back, yeh're allowed to touch him. If he doesn' bow, then get away from him sharpish, 'cause those talons hurt.

J.K. Rowling

#12. In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

Carla Bruni

#13. Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

David Foster Wallace

#14. There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chris Brown

#15. Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

John Green

#16. There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Marian Anderson

#17. Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

Gina Barreca

#18. The first rule of her
confrontational life-style was Always get the last word. The second
was Always make the first move. Making this first move was what she
thought of as Taking Care of Things, and she meant to take care of
Nettle in a hurry.

Stephen King

#19. It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a false mask of gaiety when she was so much more - felt so much more - beneath. No one had ever noticed her mask. No one but him. If he couldn't or wouldn't make the first move, then damn it, she would.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#20. We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole, than waiting for the thick wall encircling life to brutally make the first move. (As happens during wartime.)

Tom McDonough

#21. He liked to talk about the criminals he had put away, and how a person never knew, and how he had to protect his family, and how he wasn't going to let the other guy make the first move, but really it was just that Bert liked guns. The

Ann Patchett

#22. Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

Silvia Colloca

#23. One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

Rodney Dangerfield

#24. The mistake people that want to be actors make is to move to New York or L.A. right away. But it's like ... go act somewhere first. Be an actor. A story is a story, and an audience is an audience, no matter where you're doing it.

Conrad Ricamora

#25. I never make a mistake on the first move!

Ernst Grunfeld

#26. I make mistakes and I move on. That's what I do, that's what I've always done. I leave, and other people leave. You're the first person in my whole life who stayed. And then you were taken away. But now you're here again ... and you're trying to leave me. That fucking hurts, too.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#27. You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.

Thierry Henry

#28. Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#29. 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

#30. Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realizing you've got to make your own way.

Saoirse Ronan

#31. Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off as you've always dreamed, yet you don't have the first notion of how to make it start, much less how to make it move.

Andrew Sean Greer

#32. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

Matt Ross

#33. If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

Ari Fleischer

#34. My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#35. She spent the entire day at the house, debating the issue with herself. First, she watched TV. British television seemed to consist mostly of makeover shows. Garden makeovers. Fashion makeovers. House makeovers. Everything relating to change. It seemed like a hint. Change something. Make a move. She

Maureen Johnson

#36. Life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. ========== Dream Chaser (Kenyon, Sherrilyn)

Anonymous

#37. As they crept closer, I decided to make my move first and surprise them. I selected my prey, the biggest one! The reasoning behind this is that if you deck the largest and strongest one out of a group then it sends out a clear-cut message to the rest of them.

Stephen Richards