This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

I had my first ‘Survivor Series’ in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn’t argue – he tells you!

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be ‘Deathlok.’

To me, family is first.

THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power which it vests in the government, including the restraints imposed on the States. The SECOND, to the particular structure of the government, and the distribution of this power among its branches.

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

You forget how I talked when you first met me. I have learned a new language since then. Before that time I talked as that girl talks. Now I can manage to make myself understood sufficiently in your language to explain that you do not know that other girl’s language.

The onlookers laughed uproariously, and he felt ashamed, he knew not why, for it was his first snow.

This is the first time I have heard ‘ethics’ in the mouth of a man. You and I are the only men on this ship that know its meaning. At one time in my life, I dreamed that I might someday talk with men who used such language, that I might lift myself out of the place in life in which I had been born, and hold conversation and mingle with men who talked about just such things as ethics.

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it..

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.

I didn’t write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children’s book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

For sure it’s better to have a coach. I won’t lie to you. It’s better to have someone to help you. I need it, you know. But as I say all the time, it’s not easy to feel someone. That person has to be – has to be, for me, like good, first of all, but has to be hard and also understand my personality.

My first objective is to win against No. 1 in the world.

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He’s the one I first worked with. He’s amazing.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

The one thing I’ve always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit – meaning not in front of it – so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don’t know if it’s a superstitious thing, but it’s actually how I recorded my first album.

In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.’ Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies’ version bears no resemblance to the book.

I’m a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn’t a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we’re third.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other menfir

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself

The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that’s occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it

First impressions last. Start behind the eight ball and you’ll never get in front.

I don’t have to overturn awards like that because I never lost one in the first place.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

There is no such thing as second place. Either you’re first or you’re nothing.

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English

Being confident in your own abilities is the first step towards achieving greatness.

I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, ‘Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?’

For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say ‘okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.’

The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I’d never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Second is the first of the losers.

Victory is achieved through a lot of things, but first and foremost, the mind.

To finish first, you must first finish.

My first idol was a Swedish goalie, Peter Lindmark.

Finding is the first act. The second, loss.

God has never made a failure. The work from first to last is glorious.

Believing in yourself is the first step to success.

My mind was clear… From the first kilometer to the last kilometer, I knew I had it.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.

Every artist was first an amateur.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then – probability will occur.

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

Blood, sweat, and respect. First two you give, last one you earn.

I’m a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I’d discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, ‘Damn – I’m too old for this.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.

The first and highest of all is the sphere of the fixed stars, which comprehends itself and all things, and is accordingly immovable.

In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that the book will contain as it were the general structure of the universe.

In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical.

The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.

When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Foo-foo the First, King of the Mooncalves!

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I’d put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I always say, ‘Well if you think it’s over the top, then tell me where the top is first. I don’t think anyone can, but if you can tell me where the top is, then I’ll tell you whether or not I’m over it.’

First name Mister; middle name period; last name T.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

One of the things you can always depend on, this is one of the truths of the universe. And you heard it first from here, whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.