Quotes About First Place

#1. the trailer, and he begins to question whether we had even seen the boy in the first place. In truth, I'm beginning to

Matthew Whitehead

#2. In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.

Molly Ivins

#3. To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the children as the grievous mental harm in bringing up the child Catholic in the first place.

Richard Dawkins

#5. You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

Guillermo Del Toro

#6. I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

Louis Freeh

#7. After all, I wasn't even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead.

J.D. Brewer

#8. There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.

James Hunt

#9. In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart.

Vincent Van Gogh

#10. It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

Dinaw Mengestu

#11. Kind of. Is missing something proof of how much you were into it in the first place?

David Levithan

#12. Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

Horace

#13. You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

Patricia Richardson

#14. We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

Robert Heilbroner

#15. She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

Leslye Walton

#16. He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.

John Locke

#17. The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

David R. Brower

#18. The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Sacha Guitry

#19. Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.

Paul Coelho

#20. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Stanley Weiser

#21. I mean, come on. If they really wished you were there, they'd have invited you in the first place, right? It's kind of mean, if you really think about it. It should say: 'Greece: Where nobody's all that upset you're not here.

Jennifer E. Smith

#22. But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Dan Rather

#23. Once I get the horse where he's responding and working for ya and has a good frame of mind and a good attitude, it's not just the horse that needs fixing. It's the human that needs fixing and it's the human that created that in the first place.

Buck Brannaman

#24. Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the galaxy, you might as well be eight feet tall and covered with hair.

Charles Yu

#25. I like running because it lets everything go. I like walking back because it reminds me why I ran in the first place.

R.K. Ryals

#26. God not only wants us to rely on Him for our daily portion but He also demands we keep first place in our lives reserved for Him. It's easy to get so consumed with our promised land that we forget the promise Maker.

Lysa TerKeurst

#27. How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?

Liane Moriarty

#28. It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance ... after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

Mercedes Lackey

#29. If I'd been afraid," she said, "I never would have started out in the first place."--Grandma Emma Gatewood

Ben Montgomery

#30. We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

Simon Sinek

#31. The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

Martin Cooper

#32. Whenever you feel like giving up, think about why you started in the first place. If that still matters, so does the need to keep going.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#33. Better to regret actions you have taken than to regret not having had the courage to take them in the first place.

Holly Chamberlin

#34. If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.

W. Edwards Deming

#35. If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

Malorie Blackman

#36. Perhaps great men are content with marrying a woman who is not their equal, but we great women ... Our equals are rare enough in the first place, and then most of those we do find have married twits.

Brent Weeks

#37. My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

Charlie Worsham

#38. In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything
to impress women.
(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)

Aaron Sorkin

#39. His words burned to my very core as I drew a horrible conclusion. None of it had been real. I'd fallen in love with a boy who'd never belonged to me in the first place.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#40. No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

Elfriede Jelinek

#41. I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.

Lamar Odom

#42. Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

Deepak Chopra

#43. Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

Tucker Carlson

#44. Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

Marla Maples

#45. What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

Ken Wilber

#46. Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...

G.E. Moore

#47. Missing someone meant that you are fortunate to love someone in the first place. If you don't miss them you don't love them

Rachel Robinson

#48. I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

William S. Burroughs

#49. Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place.

Harvey MacKay

#50. insulation prevents you from making the change and finding the understanding you set out to achieve in the first place.

Seth Godin

#51. I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.

Evgeni Plushenko

#52. The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.

Sheryl Crow

#53. In my opinion, no one can save the world ... we can save the ones we care about, the ones nearby, if we're lucky enough to be able to save them in the first place.

Cameron Jace

#54. The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

Macaulay Culkin

#55. And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

Mary Kay Andrews

#56. They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.

Brandon Sanderson

#57. The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

Walt Kelly

#58. We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

Ronald Reagan

#59. But there is a second answer to the question of why greatness, one that is at the very heart of what motivated us to undertake this huge project in the first place: the search for meaning, or more precisely, the search for meaningful work. I

James C. Collins

#60. I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

Donald Miller

#61. I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Larry David

#62. The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

William Godwin

#63. I hadn't felt too awful lying to Braden since his three-sixty back into predatory hottie with wicked eyes and fuck-me smile was the sole reason I'd had to resort to lying in the first place.

Samantha Young

#64. [H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

Steve Hagen

#65. Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

Kurt Vonnegut

#66. It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

Seth Rogen

#67. If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.

Leonard Jacobson

#68. We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.

Peter Senge

#69. If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

Marilyn Manson

#70. Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

Thomas Bangalter

#71. The government announced that never again will this country allow such a 'lapse in humanity to poison us and strip people of their basic human rights.' Everybody looks back and wonders how we allowed it to happen in the first place. It all seems so simple now.

Cecelia Ahern

#72. People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

Pete Hamill

#73. The gospel never claims to produce perfect people in this life, and these individuals might or might not be genuine believers in the first place.

Vincent Cheung

#74. If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any God-damned wars in the first place!

Sally Field

#75. Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place - a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.

Chip Walter

#76. In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Flannery O'Connor

#77. The CEO of The Cheesecake Factory is now warning that Obamacare will be very costly. Hey, The Cheesecake Factory is one of the reasons we need Obamacare in the first place.

Jay Leno

#78. Consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late

Alexandra Potter

#79. If someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and Juliet romance, I would never have believed it. But it wasn't like that summer went at all like I planned in the first place.

Magan Vernon

#80. We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place
we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else.

Shirley Jackson

#81. We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place.

D.R. Silva

#82. Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

Anna Quindlen

#83. God should always be in the first place in our lives

Sunday Adelaja

#84. I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.

Paul Weller

#85. The only paths you can't travel are the ones you block yourself--so don't let the fear of failure stop you from trying in the first place.

William Ritter

#86. He couldn't allow himself to give the warning a second thought. Second thoughts led to doubt, and doubt led to carelessness, which in turn would likely lead him to exactly what gave him the second thought in the first place

Melissa Foster

#87. Create desire. After all, desire needed no explanation. The heart wants what it wants, most people would say. But what makes the heart want in the first place? No one ever asked that question.

Tony Bertauski

#88. Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world's goods.

Billy Graham

#89. The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Josh Homme

#90. What the hell does it all mean? Does 11:11 really mean anything at all? Well, that simply depends on whether you believe life has meaning in the first place.

Harry Whitewolf

#91. Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge ... or when I want to create some.

Stephen Colbert

#92. To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

Gary Oldman

#93. (N)ever apportion blame. How can there be opponents or rivals or even "others" when there is no "self" in the first place?

Elif Shafak

#94. Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

Noam Chomsky

#95. Creativity isn't always about thinking outside the box, it's about looking around you and realizing there was never a box there in the first place.

Robert Michael Gallant

#96. There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.

Richard Mitchell

#97. It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

Andrew Carnegie

#98. This is what games do: they promise us that we can repair a personal inadequacy - an inadequacy that they produce in us in the first place.

Jesper Juul

#99. That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place - so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle.

Jim Butcher

#100. She blames me for taking you away from her."
"I was never hers in the first place. And this isn't some game of pass-the-parcel."
That made her grin. "If you're the parcel," she said, giving him a suggestive glance, "I would like to unwrap you.

Lisa Kleypas