Quotes 41 till 60 of 1905.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
and waste its sweetness on the desert air.Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , St. 14 -
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
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I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
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I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008 -
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
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Life is a first draft... with no rewrite.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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