C. S. Lewis Quotes

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

C. S. Lewis

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• A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • America
  • Band
  • Firsts

• I'm a songwriter first.

  

  Carole King
  • Firsts
  • Songwriters

• I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Firsts

• Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Play

• My children come first and the career comes in around that.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Children
  • Career
  • Firsts

• Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Brain
  • Gold
  • Firsts

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Firsts
  • Records

• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Trying
  • Firsts

• First rule about vampires, don`t believe anything you read.

  

  An Na
  • Believe
  • Firsts
  • Vampire

• I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Music
  • Country
  • Years

• You have to be the first, best or different.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Different
  • Firsts

• I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Proud
  • Firsts
  • Mumbai

• Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Pride
  • Firsts
  • Prejudice

• Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

  

  E. R. Squibb
  • Health
  • Firsts
  • Healing

• Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Action
  • Wisdom

• The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Firsts

• Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Quality
  • inspirational
  • Firsts

• I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Trying
  • Firsts
  • Gym

• His kind of courage was boundless, though, and he would not have turned away a person in need, whether a star performer or a simple laborer or a child such as Theo with no skills at all. It was not about the circus or family connections, but human decency. Herr

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Person
  • Courage
  • Boundless

• The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Up
  • Book
  • Movie

• Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Ideas
  • Film
  • Levels

• You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Firsts
  • Put First Things First
  • First Things First