Quotes of: First-thing Keyword

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.

Doctor Sleep

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

Ender's Game

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Essays, First Series

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

Essays, First Series

...People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane...

First Kiss: The Widow Darcy Journals, Book 1

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

The First Circle

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

The First and Last Freedom

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

The First and Last Freedom

I think people believe what they want to believe.

The First Phone Call from Heaven

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.

The First Immortal

Do kisses fade like Polaroid pictures if you don't pay attention to them?

The First Last Kiss

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

The First Salute

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

The First Salute

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle

The First Salute

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

The Hour I First Believed

For the first time I had the best of both worlds--a mission to live for and a man to love.

In His Command

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

As the fireworks began to illuminate the sky above them, Blake and Veronica made love for the first time on Hideaway Hill.

Hideaway Hill

The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later; the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later.

The Art of War

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

The Book Thief