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First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others. — Thubten Yeshe

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being. — Anthony M. Esolen

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. — Salman Rushdie

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs. — Elizabeth Edwards

Extraordinary and null - these two adjectives apply to the sexual act, and, consequently, to everything resulting from it, to life first of all. — Emil Cioran

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. — Pope Gregory I

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done. — John Goodman

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

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. — A.R. Ammons

All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. — Sarah Addison Allen

First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan. — John Carpenter

All children are precious in the eyes of God. If we want to better humanity ... we must try and better the lives of all of it's children first. — Timothy Pina

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began. — Charles De Lint

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone. — William Graham Sumner

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary. — Clement Greenberg

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out. — Rush Limbaugh

First of all, there is no need to patronize me by implying that I'm Helen of Troy when it's clear that I'm no beauty. — Lisa Kleypas

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education." — Rush Limbaugh

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

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind. — Joan Of Arc

First of all, i'm not an actor - I'm an asshole. — Chelsea Handler

To be completely featured as human. First of all, man must live with the truth. — Khem Veasna

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time. — Jimmy Carl Black

First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis. — Richard Branson

The first loves of a man's youth run through all the currents of his life. — Charles S. Faddis

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. — John Podhoretz

The first issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a wonderful door to a seductive new world. Let's all go in! — Fabio Moon

We all know that broad's about six stamps short of first class these days. — Danielle Paige

Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience. But they are also unconscious. — Malcolm Gladwell

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing. — Barry Diller

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism. — Narendra Modi

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days. — Saxby Chambliss

Never forget that I was your first real kiss. Never forget that you'll be my last. And never stop loving me between all of them. — Colleen Hoover

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice. — Elizabeth Berg

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. — Claude Debussy

First of all, you're dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly... yes, I know that rhymed, you really don't have to tell me. — Gayle Ramage

We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all. — Rafik Hariri

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once. — Steve Rushin

You don't mess with janitors, first of all, they have like 40 keys, and 1 is to a closet you don't want to be inside of. — Chelsea Handler

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode. — Anthony Michael Hall

I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well. — Laura Bell Bundy

I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way. — Angela Davis

Any work of art must first of all tell a story. — Robert Frost

My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all I remember. — Toni Morrison

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III. — Beau Bridges

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef. — Martin Yan

Sometimes taking a first step is the biggest and most important journey of them all. — Darlene Craviotto

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. — Joseph Addison

When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying. — Matthew Henry

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people — Alexander Hamilton

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. — Kurt Vonnegut

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. — Sherry Turkle

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration. — Harvey Weinstein

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language. — Marc Anthony

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first. — Vivienne Westwood

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. — Nigel Rees

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious. — Soren Kierkegaard

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time. — Rachael Yamagata

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center. — Edwin Arnold

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. — Jean Racine

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. — Benjamin Disraeli

As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good. — Patrick Huard

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle. — C.L.R. James

Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters. — Ambrose Bierce

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general. — Jenji Kohan

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. — Alexandre Dumas

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded — Jodi Picoult

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved. — Thomas Merton

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States. — Michael Mandelbaum

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. — Henri Frederic Amiel

If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen. — David B. Haight

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always. — Jenny Han

First of all, don't use that name like a weapon against me — Veronica Roth

But tonight was all about getting my needs taken care of for the first time ever with a man. In and out. — Zach Jenkins

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. — Soren Kierkegaard

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 first of all a white man, and only then a socialist. — Jack London

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. — Romain Rolland

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. — Kerry Greenwood

First of all, Jericho ... Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back! — Triple H

I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo. — Phil Jackson

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. — Nick Hornby

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. — Everett Dirksen

First of all, I wish I could grow a beard. — John Hodgman

People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out. — Greg Giraldo

I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way. — Joel Kinnaman

First of all, nobody can be innocent and wise at the same time. That's another one of those impossible combinations. — Amy Schumer

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens. — Marina Abramovic

I wanted to hurt her, on this day of all days, just because it's the first time since she left that I've been able to. — Nick Hornby

First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on. — Garry Shandling

The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel. — Andre Simon

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. — David Hume

You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met."
"That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown. — Cassandra Clare

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned. — Azar Nafisi

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. — Albert Einstein

First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever. — Rosemary Rogers