Firsts Quotes (page 2)

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• past
• affection
• manly

First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is. It affects the whole machine, and failure is the consequence. You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure. Charles Dickens

• fashion
• learning
• great

... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ... Friedrich Nietzsche

• saying
• eyes
• god

First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: 'These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself. The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is... Henri Nouwen

• smelled
• horrible
• firstly

First I showered off that horrible butt smell you get from being on an airplane. [p. 257] Anne Lamott

• kids
• author
• school

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave. Hillary Clinton

• socialists
• came
• firstly

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak ou? because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak ou? because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak ou? because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak ou? because I was not a Jew; Then they came for m? and there was no one left to speak out for me. Martin Niemoller

• baby
• sleep
• guaranteeing

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you. Clint Eastwood

• drizzt
• firstly
• mine

First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more.--Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden R. A. Salvatore

• saturday morning
• feeling
• bad

(first lines) Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him in the mornings early, when the streets were completely empty, the way they were one Saturday morning in late November. Larry McMurtry

• distort
• fact
• them

First get the facts, you can distort them later Mark Twain

• love
• first love
• kindness

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time. Honore de Balzac

• ignorance
• fighting
• winning

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. Mahatma Gandhi

• love
• best
• best love

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. Maya Angelou

• fear
• effort
• firstly

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt

• impressive
• firstly
• impressions

First impressions are always unreliable. Franz Kafka