Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.
The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.
After being on ‘Oprah’ for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.
Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.
Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you’re up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that’ll listen.
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.
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.
Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.
Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet.
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.