Top 1200 Put First Things First Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

The first CD I ever bought was Gwen Stafani's first solo album. She was the light of my life when I was 8.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

First 2Pac song I heard was 'Brenda Got a Baby.' That was the first one. I didn't even hear it. I saw the video.

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'

At first glance, there's a lot of sex on the Internet. Or not at first glance: nobody can find anything on the Internet at first glance.

Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

The first fight I ever saw live was the first Castillo-Corrales match in Las Vegas in 2005.

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.

In 2015 we released our first ever. It was our first album, but it was also our first original album.

Sequels are hard. What people want is to see the first film again for the first time and that simply isn't possible.

When I first was able to fill in A-C-T-O-R for the occupation line on my passport, that was the first time I really felt, 'Wow, I'm home.'

You can always hear a director saying, 'Well I don't really know what this piece is saying, so therefore, I reject it.' There are any number of things you can anticipate going wrong, and sometimes they go right. But I think the things you like most are the things that get rejected first. That's just how things work.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.

On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.

I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.

You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.

The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.

First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife.

I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

The day that arrives the first victory or the first win for McLaren-Honda will be a massive achievement for all of us.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

Now when I first heard EPMD's first joint 'You Gots to Chill' and later 'So Whatcha Sayin'?' I said, 'I can do this!'

Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.

Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the story of the ways we put things back together-messily, beautifully, and ultimately triumphantly. Kallos is a writer to watch, and one who, mercifully, still believes in happy endings.

In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.

Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord

I went to Africa the first time when I was 14 and first starting out in modeling. I went for a campaign and I just fell in love.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.

I don't throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash.

Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.

I played the coronet first, and then I upgraded to the trumpet. First song I learned on there was 'Hot Cross Buns.'

Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation was to put German Jews in jail. Tens of thousands of Jews - who had just been fortunate enough to get out from under Hitler only a few years before - spent the entire war in jail.

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them on earth. This is somewhat comparable to the pull of the flesh when our alarm goes off early in the morning. Unless we put "mind over mattress" and carry out the resolves made the night before, we will experience our first defeat that day. Not sufficient to finish. Mission aborted.

Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.

I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

That movie was my girlfriend. That was my girl." I knew there was going to be initial anger. As a matter of fact, when I was deciding to do Footloose that was one of the first things that I had to realize. First of all, I had to figure out a human connection to it but then I also had to reconcile that I was going to get beat up a little bit on this a little bit.