500 Quotes by Firsts

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

Any business plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say ‘amen.’

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.