1.
I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.
Kathryn Kuhlman
I relinquished all my being to Him; everything! Then, for the initial time I comprehended what it implied to possess authentic authority.
2.
To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.
Simon Bolivar
'Accomplishing something correctly necessitates repetition. The initial effort educates the second attempt.'
3.
For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.
Wilhelm II
I am embarrassed to be German.
4.
Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
Kendrick Lamar
5.
There's a first time for everything when I'm involved.
Shawn Michaels
6.
It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.
Steven Wright
7.
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
Hirohito
8.
However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.
Jane Goodall
9.
It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.
Phil Crosby
10.
Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.
Linus Torvalds
11.
There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.
Jared Padalecki
12.
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
Anton Chekhov
13.
It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.
Gough Whitlam
15.
My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.
Carrie Fisher
16.
the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.
Mary Lee Settle
17.
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.
Christian Morgenstern
18.
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
Cory Doctorow
19.
If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?
Robert Fulghum
20.
Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young...or the old.
André Aciman
21.
From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
Lauryn Hill
22.
I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
23.
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Bill Moyers
24.
When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
25.
I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me
Mark Harmon
26.
History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
Erik Qualman
27.
The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?
Jean Rhys
28.
A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
Sam Worthington
29.
From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.
Kristin Hannah
30.
We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.
Samuel Marsden
31.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Winston Churchill
32.
'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.
Joss Whedon
33.
I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.
Phil Jackson
34.
Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.
Kami Garcia
35.
[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.
Harold Feinstein
36.
The Pleiadians are opening an energetic timeline for the very first time in any seminar, allowing you to enter the timeline where all experience occurs, because everything exists in one moment.
Christine McCormick Day
37.
I'm thankful for the position that I'm in, I'm thankful to go to the ceremony [of Grammys] the first time, thankful for everything. I'm just taking it step by step.
Tory Lanez
38.
He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
Cormac McCarthy
39.
People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
Willard Wigan
40.
Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
Felix Baumgartner
41.
If I could get myself in an editing room, that'd be trouble. I mean, that's how it works, you know? You leave everything on the field. I would pick apart - I do, even on the first time. More than once is just too much self-destruction. I don't need that.
Paul Dano
42.
If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I would not want somebody to be thinking they knew me based on that. It's like even private citizens have to deal with this persona phenomenon.
Mary Gaitskill
43.
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Oscar Wilde
44.
When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.
Chris Rock
45.
I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.
Joe Sakic
46.
I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.
O. J. Simpson
47.
If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.
Kasi Lemmons
48.
It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.
Lillie Langtry
49.
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
Douglas Adams
50.
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
Antonio Porchia