First Quotes

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

~ Jackie Kennedy

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

~ Tom Hopkins

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

~ Andrew Carnegie

Leadership is about being a servant first.

~ Allen West

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

~ James Stockdale

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

~ Carol Vorderman

Since the gluten-free diet is not for everyone, it's recommended that you stick with a gluten-free diet for at least 3 weeks first to see if it works for you.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

~ Bonnie Tyler

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.

~ Mark Burnett

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Adversity is the first path to truth.

~ Lord Byron

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

~ James A. Garfield

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

~ Novalis

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

~ Roger Rosenblatt

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

~ Tertullian

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

~ Winston Churchill

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

~ Janeane Garofalo

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

~ Samuel Johnson

The first wealth is health.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Happiness lies first of all in health.

~ George William Curtis

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

~ Gene Simmons

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

~ Paul Theroux

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

~ Gene Simmons

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

~ Robert Benchley

In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.

~ Robert Dallek

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

~ Pankaj Mishra

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

~ Rick Springfield

I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.

~ Toks Olagundoye

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

~ M. Night Shyamalan

It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

~ Joe Namath

I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

~ Natalie Cole

Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.

~ Jay Samit

At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.

~ Ryan Holmes

My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique.

~ Aerin Lauder