Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.
It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.
During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?
The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.'
When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.
I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.
I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.
I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.
I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.
One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.
Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.
And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first.
I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.
Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.
Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.
Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.
Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.
Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.
The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.
Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.
First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.
I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.
First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.
My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.
Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.
This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.
It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.
I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.