I don’t kick a man when he’s down, unless I’m the one who put him down in the first place. I don’t put him down unless he deserves it. And I don’t break my word if I give it. So I’ll give you my word.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.
First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.
There is no doing in the world without being first.
I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that’s bigger than myself. And because I’m black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.
The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we’ve often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don’t feel like the Devil.
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.
Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
I’ll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.