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In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.
— Joyce Van Patten
But I also wanted to watch her sleep, and then watch her wake up and see me, and gauge her feelings from that first, unfiltered reaction.
— Christina Lauren
I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.
— Art Buchwald
Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek
There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post.
— Andrew Matthews
I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
— Douglas MacArthur
I hate to say it, but it can't be much of a dark conspiracy if a trio of first-year shlubs like us have worked it all out.
— G. Norman Lippert
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
— Douglas Wood
A word of advice, if I may? Explosions are an excellent way to kill the undead. But you should probably take a few steps back first, kid.
— Heather Brewer
Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.
— Sarah Silverman
Don't ever hit a person first, but if anybody ever puts their hands on you, you hit them right between the eyes.
— Sonny Barger
It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.
— Joe Torre
Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path. - LU XUN
— Jacqueline Novogratz
I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do.
— Diane Nelson
We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first.
— Haruki Murakami
You'll go about your day, and you will miss him at first, but over time it will ease. It will lessen.
— Jenny Han
I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.
— Hayden Panettiere
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
— Alanna Ubach
That was my first hint that groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.18
— Jonathan Haidt
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
— Thomas More
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
— Jessica Savitch
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience. But they are also unconscious.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I am what I am... but for the first time in my life, I'm sorry for it.
— Heather Blanton
I'd blow someone for a valium," I said in Jacob's ear.
"Maybe he's got one ... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage. — Jordan Castillo Price
"Maybe he's got one ... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage. — Jordan Castillo Price
America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.
— Wojciech Jaruzelski
I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.
— Ruthie Henshall
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
— Thomas S. Monson
I don't usually fly in first class, but I fart in first class.
— Demetri Martin
At first he seems cold, but if he really fell for someone, he'd love them deeper than the deep blue sea.
— Rika Yokomori
What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.
— Dewey Redman
Well, I'd find sleeping with you a pleasant thing, but I'd prefer making love with you a few dozen times first.
— Nora Roberts
True productivity is not first about efficiency - doing things right and doing them quickly - but effectiveness - doing the right things.
— Matt Perman
There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.
— Luis Gutierrez
It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere.
— Ivan Turgenev
That would be stupid." "True. But in keeping with your 'act first, think second' behavioral trend.
— Veronica Roth
But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me.
— Lily Allen
People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
— Dave Eggers
A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.
— Gelett Burgess
Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.
— Santino Fontana
Than the first, so you could have a fairly recent crime. But that could also
— Jonathan Kellerman
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
— Damien Chazelle
For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.
— Margaret Atwood
Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but - much like golf - turns out it's all in the swing.
— Rachel Vincent
For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil.
— Dean Koontz
It is neutral if you go under spell in your first love; but if it happens for a second time you have mistaken love with something else.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience.
— Charlotte Church
He needed to go back to Pink Lips, but first he needed to deal with his brother's betrayal.
— Leo Sullivan
Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon.
— David Letterman
Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish.
— Liu Cixin
Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
— O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Am I going to have to die first before I come here every time? Because no offense, but for fuck's sake, I can just give you a cell phone to call.
— J.R. Ward
I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.
— James Stewart
The fact that light travels at a finite, but very high, speed was first discovered in 1676 by the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer.
— Stephen Hawking
But when you cared about someone, you made sacrifices. You put their happiness first.
— Sabrina James
People go on about the first time being important, but it's the second time that really matters. Or the second person, anyway.
— Nick Hornby
Maybe she would wrap her legs around his waist and fuck him like she'd wanted to the moment she first saw him. But he deserved a good, clean girl.
— Pepper Winters
Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.
— Diana Gabaldon
I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.
— Kevin Leman
Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same.
— Nana Awere Damoah
First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.
— Ryan Sean O'Reilly
It may seem difficult at first, but eating more high-nutrient foods reduces the desire for low-nutrient foods; it becomes easier with time.
— Joel Fuhrman
The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.
— Douglas Preston
That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.
— Jeff Bridges
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
— Ernst Zundel
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.
— Paul Johnson
To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!!
— Lorine S. Thomas
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
— Elton John
Jeb: But I need to tell you something first.
Max (thinking): That you are the devil incarnate? — James Patterson
Max (thinking): That you are the devil incarnate? — James Patterson
To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.
— John C. Maxwell
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
JavaScript derives its syntax from Java, its first-class functions from Scheme, and its prototype-based inheritance from Self. But
— David Flanagan
I couldn't help but notice no one was grabbing toilet paper. That would be the first thing I grabbed if I thought it was the end of the world
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
I'll be ready for my first kiss! When it happens, it'll happen, but I don't know. It doesn't look like that will be anytime soon.
— Emma Roberts
Everyone dies, but not everyone has to see someone they love with another person. She struck the first blow.
— Peter Swanson
She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
— David Levithan
There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.
— Chris Brown
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.
— Matt Ridley
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
— Joe Abercrombie
The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame.
— S.D. Smith
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
— James McBride
But tonight was all about getting my needs taken care of for the first time ever with a man. In and out.
— Zach Jenkins
I've had rough first trimesters. But once you get into the second, it's fine after that.
— Megan Fox
I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!
— Stephen Bruner
You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.
— Shelagh Delaney
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
— Rob Zombie