Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
I don’t even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?
She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
I couldn’t remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.
He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything – he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that’s the danger with firsts – you lose all sense of proportion.
A life of nothing’s nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.
By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.
This wasn’t the first time that I’d come close to death, but it was the first time I’d been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you’ve loved.
As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.
You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.