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We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression. — Camilo Villegas

My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7. — Steve Wozniak

Can I help it if the world cannot worship what it has not first martyred? — Casper Silk

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world. — Matt Drudge

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

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking. — Juan Manuel Fangio

It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve — Plato

There's two kinds of people in the world, those that do work and those who take credit. Keep in the first group - there's much less competition there. — Donald C. Gause

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

We must first achieve peace within ourselves. Only then can we take that peace out into the world and invite others to make similar changes. — Auliq Ice

If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning. — Eleanor Farjeon

Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first. — Aimee Mullins

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. — Norman Cousins

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn

Don't cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride lol — Assegid Habtewold

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun. — William Shakespeare

Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice. — Cobi Jones

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

First thing I do in the morning is give thanks to God for another day, and then turn to HLN News or ESPN to see what's going on in the world. — Vivica A. Fox

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me. — Carol Thatcher

Works of genius are the first things in the world. — John Keats

It was all about size now: the big ran the world on the sweat of the small, and if the big faltered for any reason, the small were the first to go. — Michael Koryta

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

Every time I am squeezed into life, thrust out into the world through blood and muck she is the very first thing I feel: before light, before air. — B.P. Gregory

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip. — Dave Grohl

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy. — Gene Simmons

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. — Ted Turner

The Internet moves very fast. In the old world, we could afford to sit and analyze forever. But in the new world, the first mover has the advantage. — Raymond Kwok

God has a plan for your personal world, but it depends on you fulfilling it by first taking control of your mind and your mouth. — Cindy Trimm

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. — Mary Shelley

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose. — Charles Darwin

What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms? — William Butler Yeats

When god creat the world,first he must think abour architects — Ashok Sharma

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. — Sargent Shriver

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush. — William Ellery Channing

To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all. — Dave Matthews

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota

You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb. — Richard Eyre

The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies. — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most. — Napoleon Hill

First rule in this world baby ... don't believe ANYTHING you see on the news ... — Kanye West

Ascension is naught without first ascertaining the Aleph in the World — AainaA-Ridtz

Once upon a time, tomorrow was the first day of the world. — Ramona Ausubel

To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be. — Debasish Mridha

When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world. — Simon Cowell

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women ... Every girl in the world should have geisha training. — Diana Vreeland

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. — Willie Nelson

The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work. — Roland Allen

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985. — Steven Spielberg

First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything. — Swami Vivekananda

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions. — Pauline Hanson

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. — Nick Harkaway

If you want to shine over the world, first let the wisdom shines over you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals. — Bryant McGill

Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness. — Thomas Adams

Viewing the world from a different angle made it all look strange and dynamic, as if seeing it for the first time. — Kyung-Sook Shin

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. — Jacob Bronowski

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names. — Sharon Bolton

Ada Taylor knelt beside me on the floor as I cried for the first time over the thought that my favorite person in the world was probably dead. — John Corey Whaley

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that. — Melissa Rosenberg

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself. — Winston Churchill

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King

If ideals have such a power over our lives, if they energize and direct our first entry into the world — Frank B. Anderson

There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important. — Woody Allen

When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat. — Jane Wagner

To find stability within the world, one must first find stability within. — Tyler J. Hebert

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad. — Gene Tierney

You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home! — Latif Mercado

First sentences are doors to worlds. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first. — Mark Twain

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. — Robert M. Pirsig

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed. — Richard Engel

The first five times that you bang someone and the last million times are two different worlds. — Doug Stanhope

If the world could predict who the villains and heroes were going to be, the crisis wouldn't exist in the first place." They — Deirdre Gould

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best. — Haile Gebrselassie

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous. — Lance Berkman

You are the secret. Let tarot guide you. And remember, if you want to embody the World card, first you must ask for it. — Sasha Graham

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody's imagination. — Astrid Lindgren

The crucified Christ has become a stranger to the civil religion of the First World and to that world's Christianity. — Jurgen Moltmann

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke

Most of us want to fix or change the world in some fashion. But to change the world, you first have to understand it. — Steven D. Levitt

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined. — Mark Zuckerberg