There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.
Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, “Mythology and Archetypal Experience,” confounded me. I didn’t understand why we couldn’t just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then.
That’s what the tactics are, Nazi tactics. Nazi tactics are progressive tactics first.
Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
Elgar’s first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.
I’m called a folk singer, and I’m not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of view of a singer, but from the point of view of an actor. That’s how I first started to sing.
Before anything else, you have received breath – the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.
The first word about you is that you received this life...
My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.
You can’t change the past so don’t let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you’ve got to want to.
First of all, I’m pretty private about my personal life.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.