I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote.
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
If at first you don’t succeed, Call an airstrike.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.
This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a ‘first generation’ of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.
The thing about religion is that it’s the first and the worst. The worst because it’s the first.
First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.
Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.
Women have to harness their power – it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.