Quotes and Sayings About Firsts
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Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
-- Albert Einstein -
You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
-- Albert Einstein -
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.
-- Albert J. Nock -
A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.
-- Albert Kesselring -
... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that
-- Albert Lee -
At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.
-- Albert Paley -
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
-- Alberto Korda -
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.
-- Alberto Manguel -
To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
-- Aleksey Igudesman -
You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.
-- Alessandro Del Piero -
First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
-- Alethea Kontis -
I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
-- Alex Chilton -
The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.
-- Alex Garland -
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
-- Alex Kapranos -
I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.
-- Alex Toth -
When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.
-- Alexander Calder -
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
-- Alexander Cockburn
