It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard Branson

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

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

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?
Charlie Sheen

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.
Charlie Sheen

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Andy Warhol

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
Bill Cosby

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
Milton Friedman

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach

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

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor