Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions.
The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.
If you can’t explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don’t understand it very well, or it’s not all that worthwile in the first place.
O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
The gravity is the first thing which you don’t think.
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.