“Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.”
Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero
Variant: Survive today. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.
Source: The Lost Hero
Quotes about first page 19
Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye
What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Immortal Beloved
Gideon Defoe (1975) British writer
Source: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists
“… The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.”
James Redfield book The Celestine Prophecy
Source: The Celestine Prophecy
“To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.”
Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) US philosopher (1907-1977)
Source: The Night Country
“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
“It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.”
Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time
Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time
“To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 146-147.
1930s
Source: A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
Context: The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those who know the most about it can appreciation how little we know about it. The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Notes on Hospitals 3rd Edition (1863), Preface
Variant: It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Source: Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
James Madison Federalist Papers
Federalist No. 51 (6 February 1788)
1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
Source: The Federalist Papers
Context: If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
“First we build the tools, then they build us.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Source: Tiger Lily
“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
T.S. Eliot book Four Quartets
Variant: We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
Source: Four Quartets
“A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.”
Steve Kluger (1952) American writer
Source: My Most Excellent Year
“Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Source: The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir.”
Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer
“I have never been in love before," Julian said. "You're my first-and you'll be my only.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Hunter
“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead”
Stephen King book The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
“The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Source: Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713), Line 1.
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 23.
Context: To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The natural laziness of the mind tempts one to eschew authors who demand a continuous effort of intelligence. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
People tell me that they must read the papers so as to know what is going on. In the first place, they could hardly find a worse guide. Most of what is printed turns out to be false, sooner or later. Even when there is no deliberate deception, the account must, from the nature of the case, be presented without adequate reflection and must seem to possess an importance which time shows to be absurdly exaggerated; or vice versa. No event can be fairly judged without background and perspective.
“So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Variant: Max:"So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.
Source: Fang
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander
First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
Variant: Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Source: Existentialism Is a Humanism, lecture http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm (1946) <br class="br">Context: What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards. If man as the existentialist sees him is not definable, it is because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself. Thus, there is no human nature, because there is no God to have a conception of it. Man simply is. Not that he is simply what he conceives himself to be, but he is what he wills, and as he conceives himself after already existing – as he wills to be after that leap towards existence. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism.
Brian W. Kernighan (1942) Canadian computer scientist
" The Elements of Programming Style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_Style", 2nd edition, chapter 2.
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variant: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
“If I lose control, you'll be the first to know."
"I'm quite perturbed by the idea.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns