500 Quotes by Firsts

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

First the colours. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.

When you have lived the life I’ve lived, when you’ve loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad – well, that’s when you realize you’ll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you’d rather die first.

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

Set the tone for your day be treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to smile. Express your appreciation for them. Expect the best out of them. If you act first, you will set yourself up for success.

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

If I’d never have picked up the first person, I’d never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

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