Quotes of: First-impression Keyword

Then the angels, the demon, and the Nephilim flew to distant corners of the sky, leaving a moment's brilliant flash of light behind them, as below, Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first-and the last- time

Rapture

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

Rabbit, Run

Dimly--at first wary that it was merely a dislodged fragment of the dream--she remembered Resurgam. And then, slowly, events returned, not as a tidal wave, or even as as landslide, but as a slow, squelching slippage: a disembowelment of the past.

Revelation Space

Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough t...

The Red Tent

Hanks grin almost sent me into meltdown. The kind where I killed him, but first I would stick my tongue down his throat and ride him till he was blind.

Ready to Were

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Selected Letters 1917-1961

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

Sermons and Treatises, Vol 2

When I am alone and my skull is ripsaw I want to jump into the womb of any bonfire, I want to leap into the ceiling fan head first, but I need that fan this coming summer.

Scandalabra

First off, let’s clear this up—fries are not a side dish and you can’t count those as a vegetable. Sorry.

The Single Dad Detour: Directions for Fathering After Divorce

For the first time in a long time he decided to trust that the woman next to him, who smelled like peaches and cream and made him think of nothing but sex, wasn't going to kill him in his sleep.

Shattered Duty

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.

Sloppy Firsts

Second rule of the bush. Never get too close to anything that has offspring. What's the first rule? Food runs. If you don't want to be food, don't run.

A Spear of Summer Grass

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

On the Song of Songs I

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.

Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything