Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
Whatever’s lost, it first was won.
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.
It’s so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it’s been polluted.
I don’t think I remember my first memory.
Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.
Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word – on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
If you apologize for something that isn’t your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
A concern with ‘public morality’ is – if not the last refuge of a scoundrel – the first foray of the fascist.
I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.
There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible – at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.