Our Firsts Quotes

#1. All our firsts, and our lasts, and everything in between. They swirl and dance on the invisible currents, and then one by one, they disappear to a place they will always be a part of.

Jessi Kirby

#2. I can't kiss you tonight because kissing leads to the next thing, which leads to the next thing, and at the rate we're going, we'll be all out of firsts by next weekend. Don't you want to drag our firsts out a little longer?

Colleen Hoover

#3. If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.

Eva Mendes

#4. I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a scenario of revolution that first, you know, comes from 1917, that first you take the state power, and then you change things. And we don't realize it's collapsed.

Grace Lee Boggs

#5. I think of language as our first music.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#6. I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.

Ted Nugent

#7. The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time

Tim Harford

#9. My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing ...

Michelangelo Antonioni

#10. Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

Q-Tip

#11. I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.

Alicia Keys

#12. To improve our conditions we must first improve ourselves.

Charles F. Haanel

#13. A Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace mindset, is People Firsts, to ensure that it's not a prostitute of our children's future.

Tony Dovale

#14. To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

Bill Crawford

#15. The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority

Eddie Murphy

#16. As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature; for why should a man need a second birth, if his nature were not quite marred in the first birth?

Thomas Boston

#17. Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.

Michelle Obama

#18. The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.

Samuel

#21. The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.

Chuck Hagel

#22. Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

Alan Rufus

#23. For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#24. Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Alexander Hamilton

#25. Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

Phillips Brooks

#26. Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life.

LaMar Boschman

#27. Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other
problem will solve itself.

Ramana Maharshi

#28. While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

Michel De Montaigne

#29. Our first duty is not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

#30. Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Pliny The Elder

#31. What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles ... The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

Martin Luther

#32. I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

John F. Kerry

#33. Look at us talking blood and gore like we're on a date sharing our first sexual experience.

Hannah

#34. The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

William Caxton

#36. The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Sri Aurobindo

#37. Is any blogger out there saying anything - do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

Lindsey Graham

#38. We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.

Jon Miller

#39. Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

Mikhail Bakunin

#40. Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

Stefan Zweig

#41. The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense. And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid.

Rupert Murdoch

#43. We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.

Guy Finley

#44. For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

Gary Hamel

#45. God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

John Wesley

#46. A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.

Simon Sinek

#47. The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

Arianna Huffington

#48. We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#49. Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

Betty Dodson

#50. Our responsibility to ourselves comes first
because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

Phyllis Bottome

#51. Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana

#52. More than 80% of our revenue comes from people viewing ads on mobile devices. Inside Twitter, we talk and think mobile first.

Shailesh Rao

#53. The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

James Redfield

#54. People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
even our first or second problem, maybe the third

Atiku Abubakar

#55. The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

Andre Simon

#56. Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I've fought; talking is far better than fighting.

Seth Moulton

#57. Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

Ronald Reagan

#58. Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.

Jerry Rubin

#59. At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing ititeration is a way of engineering.

Bre Pettis

#60. By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization simply fail to exist in the first place.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#61. When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

Ambrose Bierce

#62. Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

Hillary Clinton

#63. Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

Karen Carpenter

#64. We don't ask for opinions on our outfit all the time - but for a big of event, like the Emmys, absolutely. I actually sent my sister a picture of the [J Mendel] dress I wore to the Emmys before I chose it, and she was obsessed. She was like, "Oh, I want that." And I said, "Let me wear it first!"

Kate Mara

#65. Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.

John H. Groberg

#66. The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.

Milton Friedman

#67. First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

Laozi

#68. The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

Vandana Shiva

#69. The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.

Nancy Brinker

#70. When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

Ole Hallesby

#71. I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

Ariel Pink

#72. Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Thomas Jefferson

#73. Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

H.G.Wells

#74. First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

Marshall McLuhan

#75. Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Theocritus

#76. As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.

Dallas Willard

#77. It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it ... and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

Saint Augustine

#78. No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

Walter Bagehot

#79. If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

Richard J. Foster

#80. First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#81. It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#82. We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.

Alfonso Cuaron

#83. All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

Michael Ruppert

#84. Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.

Arthur W. Pink

#85. We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

Jean De La Bruyere

#86. The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing.

Harriet Lerner

#87. We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS ... We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out.

Ted Cruz

#88. Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with Sherman that a rebel has no rights, not even the right to live except by our permission.

Charles Fessenden Morse

#89. The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

Ralph Metzner

#90. In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

George Eliot

#91. Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

Cinco Paul

#92. When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#93. We've been proud of the fact that we were known for our music first and it has been what makes us work harder

G-Dragon

#94. For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

Edwin Arnold

#95. We don't care about going 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0. Our first main objective is to go 1-0. That's the only thing we care about. That's the main focus.

Takeo Spikes

#96. The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex ... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

Marilyn Monroe

#97. This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first.

Lana Del Rey

#98. God wants us to prosper. Our need, however, is to evaluate things as they should be evaluated - to esteem earthly things lightly - to put first things first.

Kenneth E. Hagin

#99. Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

Benedict Of Nursia

#100. Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

Jim Hodges