Quotes of: First-world Keyword

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Jean Baudrillard

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Ernest Hemingway

We know a post-email world is coming. Asana is the first credible post-email application.

Justin Rosenstein

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Phylicia Rashad

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Doris Lessing

At first I was a little leery to just post photos of my little girl all the time and kind of exploit her to the world.

Jake Owen

Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external, the other too much inner sense. Seldom could nature achieve a balance between the two—a complete constitution of genius. O...

Novalis: Philosophical Writings

Miracles happen quietly every day—in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score. But now and then, a miracle is declared to the world. And when that happens, thin...

The First Phone Call from Heaven

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he...

Siddhartha

It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who ...

The Sugar Queen

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

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

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tra...

Michael Shermer

First Officer LeRoy Homer: [looking at message on display screen] "Beware cockpit intrusion." Captain Jason Dahl: "Two aircraft hit the World Trade Center." But we just left Newark. The weather was beautiful. First Officer LeRoy Homer: That's gotta b...

United 93

He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd presumed to understand and of which he knew nothing and he felt a loneliness he'd not known since he was a child and he felt wholly alien to the world al...

All the Pretty Horses

...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the proce...

Before the World Intruded

The Macedonian Endeavour Channel was screening live coverage of the world series of the Who’s Got the Stupidest Name (WGSN) competition. First prize had already gone to Brian Burdock, a French Algerian with a penchant for Longchamp.

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's ...

Steve-O