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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.
A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
In every situation, no matter what first appears. Find the good that is always there, and change that fear to cheer.
Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.
Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.
Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.
Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.
I did Brad's first film The Take and I'm glad Brad [Furman] has not calmed down. I don't want him to ever calm down.
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.
Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar
Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.
There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.
Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.
Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.
Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?
I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.
It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.
What I love the most about surfing is that it's my first love. It's the first thing I can remember being consumed by.
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.
The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.
The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.
Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'