Quotes of: Be-the-first Keyword

The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!

Shaping the dream

Never be discouraged. The fact that you will be a winner at the first attempt is unclear. You don’t get master’s degree after attending school on the first day. You got to endure till you get there.

Shaping the dream

For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked.

Second Grave on the Left

Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips--not because they're bad, but because they're mortal.

My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness

Right now, all he wanted was to get her to take that first step. "I'm not going to tattoo my name on your ass. I'm asking you to be my girlfriend.

Meeting His Match

What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.

Magic Slays

For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals to be able to participate.

The Master

You have to understand, the blood we drink every day to stay alive comes out of a jar in the refrigerator. It is the very definition of gross.

Never Bite a Boy on the First Date

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

NOS4A2

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth. "I gave up," I whispered. "Don't give up," she whispered back.

For One More Day

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

London Calling

Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Leaders First: Six Bold Steps to Sustain Breakthroughs in Construction

At the heart of good communication, is not the process of talking, but that of listening. The first step to improve your listening skills is to stop talking. It is very difficult to talk and listen at the same time.

The Leadership Coach

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?

The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days

For the first time in his centuries of life, doing the right thing didn’t seem like the right thing to do.

Love Me to Death

I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.

Letters to a Young Poet

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

The Mark of Athena

Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on.

Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only. The Twenty-first Voyage

The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy