First Quotes
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What should be shrunken must first be stretched.
Lao Tzu -
When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated stereotype of who used online dating, and we really set out to make it popular with millennials. What I find to be so fascinating now is, I'm seeing an inverse in that trend.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
Oscar Wilde -
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
Sophocles -
There is no doing in the world without being first.
Oprah Winfrey -
As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
Joshua Slocum -
My first band was an Argentinian folk group when I was 10. When I was 12 I had my electric guitar, and by the time I was 13, the Beatles came into the scene, and that was over. So I have a mixture of all these traditions, and I think that's who I am, a mixture of everything.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
Ben Affleck -
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
Alan Cumming -
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
What is a first line, but a door flung open by an unseen hand?
Conn Iggulden -
People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
Willard Wigan -
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac
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She skated really, really well. The two triple-triples made for a really strong program. She deserved to be first.
Sasha Cohen -
Before 'Animal House' came out to open up a huge market, there just weren't parts for young guys. That genre of film was my ticket in... One of my first jobs was with Bill Murray in 'Stripes.'
Judge Reinhold -
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
André Aciman -
As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.
Ozzie Smith -
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll -
All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish.
Tacitus
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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a little. I wanted to feel like I was someone who'd been worth having in the first place.
Catherine Sanderson -
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.
Charles Bolden -
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
Victor Hugo