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If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
See beauty in those unexpected places.
(she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.)
See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.
(she steered clear of the traffic jam
and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.)
She embraces the undeclared possibility
in what seems like just another ordinary day.
(her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery
and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
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The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
In my country we go to prison first, and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world
must first come to pass in the heart of America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You have a row of dominoes set up;
you knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the last one
is that it will go over very quickly.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
In rivers, the water that you touch
is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which comes;
so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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