Firsts Quotes (page 69)

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• end
• work
• grace

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. Katherine Anne Porter

• words
• word
• invention

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. Charles Baudelaire

• peace
• eyes
• end

I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central cor to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints -to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can... Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• free
• sets
• wills

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. Gloria Steinem

• couple
• bed
• excuses

For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight... David Sedaris

• him
• vote
• time

Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of tenderness instead of the old stab of pain. "Am I forgetting him?" she thought. "In time to come, will it be hard to remember anything about him? I guess it's like Granma Mary Rommely says: 'With time, passes all.' The first year was hard because we could say last 'lection he voted. Last Thanksgiving he ate with us. But next year it will be two years ago that he...and as time passes it... Betty Smith

• imagination
• elephant
• saying

It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living in the elephant cage at the zoo. Does anyone ever go there and say, Hey check out that squirrel? No, because there's something so much bigger you notice first. Jodi Picoult

• dream
• love
• marriage

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman. Zora Neale Hurston

• giving up
• rejection
• never give up

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding. Jim Valvano

• affection
• right
• affecting

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first. Matthew Henry

• him
• hit
• shark

It was an hour before the first shark hit him. Ernest Hemingway

• joy
• love wife
• wife

I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife. Leo Tolstoy

• thinking
• blue
• night

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture –a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually –I made up my mind to take the life of the... Edgar Allan Poe

• time
• she
• talk

She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places. Ernest Hemingway

• time
• reality
• passings

At first Nick was able to divide this fantasy from reality, but as time passed, he became more sure that the fantasy was reality. Stephen King