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In the news trenches, always he battled to be accurately first, ... Ed Turner was walking ethics.

George Bernard Shaw

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

George Bernard Shaw

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

Mahatma Ghandi

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Ernest Hemingway

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

James A. Garfield

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Oprah Winfrey

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally 'Famous' Amos

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool.

Carl Sagan

If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.

Carl Sagan

Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'

William Shakespeare

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Aldous Huxley

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.

Horace Mann

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Sir George Savile

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Ernest Hemingway

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Seneca

I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next.

Laurence Sterne

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Bill Cosby

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

Calvin Coolidge

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Aesop

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly

Success only hurts the first time.

Randy K. Milholland

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Chinese Proverb

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

Chinese Proverb

This was our first time.

John Atkinson

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Ayn Rand

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it 'the first law of personal growth.'

Peter McWilliams

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

Margaret Cho

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Richard J. Daley

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Jonathan Swift

A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first.

Oscar Levant

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

Oscar Levant

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Oscar Levant

I think we can win state. But I always want to take first.

Andrew Smith

People were skeptical at first. They got burnt once already.

Duane Coverdale

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Cicero

They'd [Wilson and Vaughn's characters] have to chuck us in the first act so they can crash again.

Isla Fisher

We're like, Fisher-Price: My First Punk Band.

Blink 182

We will never be as close to the rings as that first pass.

Charles Elachi

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

George Carlin

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

Judy Cornett

After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later.

Richard Brautigan

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

Our first home match is going to be difficult, and we know that better than anybody.

Taylor Twellman

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

The Champions League was the top priority but coming back from two goals down is tough. We threw away our chances of advancing in the first leg.

Gianluigi Buffon

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Joanne Kathleen Rowling

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

This is the first major turnaround in development assistance since World War II.

Robert Orr

This is my first East Asian Games gold and I'm very happy for it.

Luo Xuejuan

This is the first step in making amends for what has taken place.

Anton Valukas

The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure.

Gregory Nunn

No fun. It was a difficult first half for us.

Chuck Spagnoli

They're out in about 14 feet of water. That's where the fish are. I've been getting a few walleyes in the evenings in here, but most of the fish are out by that first drop-off.

Doug Deming

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

It's clear that both these teams are much better. This game was definitely different than the first time.

Chuck Huggins

Let's just say that we were all pretty tired by the end of the first day.

Bill Noble

We're not going with the first fish out there.

Tucker Tonkel

This is their first time (at the regional tournament) so they felt they had something to prove.

Jimmy Littleton

This is the first time we have actually measured pain activity in the human brain.

Professor Maria Fitzgerald

Bill has come down to Hollywood to make this announcement, and that is a first.

James Cameron

To grow a $32 billion company, first you have to do $32 billion in business.

John Connors

Congratulations, first and foremost. And just be ready when you come up this way.

Troy Smith

Missing her first birthday ... I'm not very happy about that, but I'll try to get by.

Robin Dezarn

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

Jay Leno

We think this will be the first of many common variants that cause obesity.

Alan Herbert

It was just amazing feeling to be the first one and to have that big of a hit. It's a good high.

Logan Love

Everyone is just as committed and focused as they were the first season.

Matt Leblanc

I've been here 19 years, ... and this is the first time it feels like disaster. And it hasn't even hit yet.

Ricky Romero

[The disc's first single will be] I'm Feeling You, ... The Game of Love.

Michelle Branch

When we first started living together, we were breaking the law.

Percy Steven

I knew I had to come out big for my team. When I hit those first two, I knew I was going to be shooting well.

Tracy Palmer

My first impression is it sounds more like a contract dispute than an antitrust case.

Mark Schechter

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

W. C. Fields

The puck followed me a little bit. The first two assists, I really didn't do too much. But if the points come, I'll take 'em.

Rene Bourque

It's becoming a broader story than first thought.

Greg Canavan

We are hoping to have at least one candidate from each district for the first class. So, if we could get seven to 10, we would feel really good about it.

Becky Schnabel

We are in the midst of an educational crisis right now. First-class schools are being replaced by first-class jails.

Bonita Parker

We offered the United States our help the first day of the disaster.

Sergei Ivanov

Some weaknesses we have are constancy from the first to 25th point and letting the mistakes go.

Jay Mitlo

If the pattern plays out, you'll get the first decent downside correction we've seen in a year.

Jeff Saut

We had everything working for us, our pitching, hitting and fielding in the first two weeks.

Joe Blumberg

It was outstanding for her first 1,500 in two years.

Mario Toussaint

We had good defense, especially our pressure defense in the first quarter.

Billy Waller

John is first class all the way. He has built a strong tradition at Middleton.

Rich Cleveland

We played in-your-face defense and ran out to a 16-3 lead in the first quarter. At half, we led 22-10.

Grant Coley

First year out of college, that's great. I'm happy to accept that.

Jeremy Calahan

It's one strike and you're out. The slip will serve as the first warning.

Nick Miller

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

I think when I first started out I got a bit carried away with myself.

Michelle Mone

This is the first time … an airport has been closed through the legislative process. We follow Congress's direction.

Hank Price

We're happy with that. Temecula came out strong in the first half, and they should have won.

Amy Litteral

To win our first (league) game is a tremendous boost of confidence.

Gary Miner

Let's focus first on the hub area, make that a great place.

Ruth Mcheyser

The first man is of the earth, earthy.

Bible

From the first day, I knew I'm going to go to prison or jail. I'll deal with it because somebody died.

Lisa Glaza

I lived in the dorms the first year and really missed cooking.

Fumi Ikeshima

At first, I thought it was cheesy.

Joan Osborne

That's the first I've heard of that.

Ted Ludwig

When you're breaking 50 [seconds] in the 300 hurdles, you're doing well. When you break 50 in your first race, that's amazing.

Kristi Frye

It was a great clinic for the first year.

Al Hammell

Top half of the first inning of this game.

Bernard Rimland

The first thing they asked me was, 'Where are we?' ... The first thing that came to my mind was Florida, but that's who we were playing.

Adam Everett

My first inclination is to vote to ban all smoking inside.

Sandra Anderson

It was a physical first half.

Steve Mckinney

She grew up in Manassas and became one of the first telephone operators.

Roxana Adams

I finally got that win, and it feels great. . . . Hopefully this will be the first of a few more this season.

Henry Liaw

We played them off the park in the first half, but they deserved to win in the end.

Bob Barnett

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Katharine Whitehorn

We got the first one behind us. We'll just get better from here.

Bob Sweeney

This is an important first step in leveling the playing field, and establishes an environment for continued communication.

Robert Koch

My very first job I emptied bedpans in a nursing home in New Jersey. It led me to go to law school.

Anne Dalton

Carroll was their go-to guy and they played very well. If they had put the first quarter and a half together, they would have beaten us.

Tom Maier

I had fun out there. Had a great Open. First US Open, I don't think I can ask for more. Very happy.

Sania Mirza

It feels really good. It's my first time, so I'm really excited.

Jennifer Martin

They (KSU) shot the ball well (in the first half). I was a little disappointed with our defensive effort because we knew what was going to come from them.

Cliff Warren

It is likely to be the first of many attacks.

John Kilduff

It was a great catch, first because that was a bullet pass. That was the fastest I've ever seen Joe run the floor.

Joe Bergamini

We have our first delivery from a successfully frozen human egg.

Jamie Grifo

Andy Chaney was a big reason we got that run in the first half with those threes.

Randy Lambert

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

I listened to the evidence, and the evidence said for us to become the first state in the union to ban this is a good thing.

Sen Richard Sears

We played a lot of small ball in the first game.

Sean Cotter

Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

Ralph Novak

We'll be directed by the NTSB to focus on certain structural components that may need to be brought up first.

Terry Labrecque

The first priority is to accommodate those teams that have lost the most amount of games.

John Gillette

People were expecting a lot from me those first few games. They have to understand I was rusty.

Marcus White

In the first half we were off our game.

Matt Taylor

When I got to first, I felt the ball in my chest. There must have been some kind of contact with Cruz's glove, then I saw the ball rolling away.

Dave Roberts

I am convinced that before the end of this decade, we will see preparations for China to build its first indigenous aircraft carrier.

Patrick Fisher

Not bad, but it doesn't feel as good as first. It's just sort of frustrating.

Andrew Vonderhaar

Offensively the first game we just crushed the ball.

Wade Mackey

You can't even mix kindergarten and first grade. Because of their different cognitive levels.

Claudia Smith

Trammell will be a strong rival. He is very fast in the first 30 meters.

Sun Haiping

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

L. Ron Hubbard

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

Kanye West

Probably, I'm a little bit excited and nervous. It's not just another pre-season game, it's the first one in this building for me.

Dominik Hasek

It's funny, because it was my first time ever in that pool, too.

Casey Fossum

Our first idea was to try and save the building.

Tom Bender

The first couple of days the main thing I could think of was to keep the family together.

Dina Kreps'

Tackle the crime first and create a platform for investment.

Neil Fraser

I won't forget it. That's the first time I got the chance to do something like that, and I messed up. But I'll have more chances.

Isaiah Swann

King considered himself, first and foremost, a prophet.

Taylor Branch

Leo already attempted to do that one at the first meeting.

Terry Pendleton

We looked inside [a comet] for the first time.

Michael A'hearn

The game was the first one to blink.

Nicole Davenport

For the first time we will have an event on every single day of Festival Week.

Phyllis Smith

Allyson had the option of running, and she wasn't very comfortable as the first leg. No one is angry. No one is upset about not being able to run the relay.

Lauryn Williams

What we would like to see first is a complete impact assessment by the Commission before anything is done.

David Pringle

Coming off good first-quarter sales, we're excited about this market.

Jay Moore

It (the bus) is stuck in the balcony on the first floor.

Malcolm Midgley

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Marshall McLuhan

The first concern is public safety.

Sandra Kunimoto

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Kristen Donofry

We had a decent first half.

Jim Epperly

That was really our first big job, the one that started us off. We had to lease trucks to get the job done.

Bruce Dresel

For the first time we have bus drivers. We're thrilled.

Ann Laborde

It's hard to bite because we had a chance of being in first place, and we didn't come to play today.

Sandra Hollander

They definitely got us in the first half. We finally settled down in the second half.

Justin Parnell

We were playing the first-place team in our division and they were undefeated.

Ricky Ray

First we need to identify the needs and wants of the community.

Mayor Dorothy Larson

Previously, the first-born was treated much differently than children born later.

Hartmut Kasten

My first response --- shock and awe. It's like, Where did this come from?

Jeff Koenings

He pitched backwards to me: first the sliders, then the fastball.

Alejandro Freire

They booted the ball around a lot in that first inning but we did a lot of hitting in that first game as well. We did it in spurts.

Jerry Kramer

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

William Weld

The dog seemed depressed at first.

Jason Johnson

Our top 15 outplayed theirs (St. Stephens) in the first half.

Steve Morgan

I had 100 members within the first two days.

Bob Rieger

There are decisions we have to make that we don't like a bit. This was the hardest thing I've had to do. I was his first pitching coach.

Rafael Chaves

They call them the Emerald Isles. When people go there, the first thing they notice is that everything is so green.

Maggie Parker

For the first time we as Americans were acutely aware of what you do.

Jim Steiner

He's the first heavyweight we've had in a while. He's more than a body. He's held his own against some top people.

Kevin Mammano

We were ahead in the first game. The first game was competitive. In the second, we let them get too big of a lead.

Stephanie Roper

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

Wes Craven

It's only a learning curve for a lot of them as this is their first trip.

Lee Sterrey

If somebody comes to see us for the first time, they fill out a screening form.

Jim Kelly