First Quotes

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

The first step is you have to say that you can.

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.