Quotes of: Be-the-first Keyword

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Meditations on First Philosophy

This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

My First Summer in the Sierra

Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. (Ray)

The Last Hour

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

Last and First Men

Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.

Leadership: The First Step

Um. I’m really good at first aid. Like, the best.” He was the god of healing, after all. He’d better be good at fucking first aid!

Sunburn

Self-awareness of one’s faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

Succubus Revealed

Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time

Secret of the Sands

The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly you do?

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

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

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

The Shadow of the Wind

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time.

The Swimmer

He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.

Telegraph Avenue

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Out of Sight, Out of Time

Everything changed for Simon Falke the first time he fell through the fire.

The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time

Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life; it was the first day of the BEST of my life.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

Ulysses

Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals.

Voice of Reason