The First Thing Quotes (page 20)

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• work
• friend
• children

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. C. S. Lewis

• quality
• evening
• passion

The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle. Theodore White

• best
• self
• victory

The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. Plato

• home
• children
• house

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down. John Steinbeck

• reality
• firstly
• steps

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. E. E. Cummings

• meditation
• firstly
• considerations

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. William Godwin

• time
• different
• strong

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different. Tony Gilroy

• god
• god first
• heavenly beings

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. Emanuel Swedenborg

• life
• gets
• get

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein

• funny
• book
• bigs

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

• thinking
• job
• learning

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. Terri Windling

• god
• useless
• god first

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Nicolas Chamfort

• hope
• society
• people

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers. Kevin Smith

• time
• play
• make

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time. Ellen Burstyn

• kiss
• dating
• manly

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date. Halle Berry