When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.
By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.
Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.
The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place.
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
Peace is first of all the art of being.
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
In order to die, you must first have lived.
We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. “Tell the tailors,” said he, “to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch.” His companion’s prayer is forgotten.
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.