Quotes of: Be-the-first Keyword

The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!

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

One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!

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

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

The Lost Herondale

For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.

Last and First Men

The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.

Last and First Men

No, not you two. Stay here.' 'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. 'Men.' 'You really want to go first?' 'Of course no. But I'd like the chance to to go first.

Lord of Misrule

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

Misalliance/The Dark Lady of the Sonnets/Fanny's First Play with a Treatise on Parents and Children

Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others.

The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates

He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah," he says sitting back. "I'm way too honest with you.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

When did you first fall in love?" "I think, I first fell in love when I was in fifth grade with this boy who kept his glass ruler in the sunlight and made rainbows on my desk with it.

Stardust and Sheets

The First Anchor in the moment of darkness The First hand in the path of love and brightness The Hand that held you strong to overcome fears The Hand that wiped away all your painful tears

Sensations of Solitude: Silent Song of Soul

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

¿Sabías que dos personas que se encuentran por lo menos tres veces en menos de veinticuatro horas tienen un noventa y ocho por ciento más de probabilidades de volver a encontrarse?

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

I want God to be first in my life, so I’m putting Him first in my life today.

Small Changes for a Better Life: Daily Steps to Living God's Plan for You

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

I can't even remember the first time I saw a porno. I presume I must have been shocked, frightened even, but after watching another and another and another they sort of blend into nothingness.

Only Ever Yours

Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one’s life. The first kiss, the birth of one’s first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss.

Psychic Skin Volume 2

But she didn’t pull away from him. If anything, she seemed to sort of melt against him. It was the first time she’d willingly accepted something from him without getting stiff and defensive and generally annoyed

Unexpected

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first mak...

Utopia