F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“First you have to help yourself.”
“First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.”
“First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.”
“First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.”
“First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.”
“First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or This line is so long. Let yourself feel it. You don't want to spiritually bypass these problems. Give yourself a couple of minutes to sit in the feeling. Acceptance sets you free from the stress of expectation.”
“First you hunger for the taste of a stranger, then your enemy, then anyone called a leader, then any small difference will do. Your hands become sharp and your words become sharp and the only move available, even with beloveds, is bloodletting.”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“First you imitate, then you innovate.”
“First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate”
Source: Where She Went
“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.”
“First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.”
“First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“First, you lose your mind to win someone’s heart. Then you lose yourself to try and get over them.”
“First you make people believe they have a problem, and then you sell them the solution. That's how advertising works. Every snake oil salesman knows that.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“First you must find... another shrubbery! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. ("A path! A path!") Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest... with... a herring!”
“First you must have the images, then come the words.”
“First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“First you must understand and accept that there is always hope that you can stop gambling. Then read about all the choices and try as many as you want. If GA doesn’t work, try mindfulness. If it doesn’t work try DBT. Combine them - do GA, financial controls and mindfulness. Try them all. Just keep trying. If you do, you will find the right path. You will succeed.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“First you must want it. You must want it so much, it hurts. You must want it so much that it hurts and causes you sleepless nights. And when you ever get to sleep, it brings you nightmares. This kind of wanting is called passion. It is an intense desire that burns so much you can hardly stand yourself.”
Source: Know What Matters
“First you point your pea shooter at me; now you want more beer. Hell of a first date.”
“First you put in, then you get out.”
“First you're going to get your sweet little ass down from there and bend over the counter while I show you who the fuck is boss around here.”
Source: Polished
“First you recognize stillness, then you are it. You feel yourself as autonomous, that is, not identified with what is all around you. And now true relation is possible.”
Source: Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest
“First, you scribble. Then, you write.”
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
Source: On Booze (New Directions Pearls)
“First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.”
“First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.”
Source: Stand on Zanzibar
“First, you want them to intrude and then you want your own space. No wonder, you're left with a void.”
“First you will be unmade. First you will be broken.”
Source: A Reaper at the Gates
“First you will feel your inner transformation in your outer relationships, and then you will go deep. Then only will you begin to feel something inner. But we have a settled attitude about ourselves. We don't want to look into relationship at all, because then the naked face comes up.”
“First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“First you will suffer, then you will tolerate and finally you will accept all your pain. Life will be always like this”
“First you win the argument, then you win the vote.”
“First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.”
Source: The You That Could Be
“First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It’s one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.”
Source: Born to Run
“First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends”
“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”
Source: Invisible Monsters Remix
“First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot...and that's how I got to know the people 'half in' the society of my high school and we waved at each other over the bong. Then I got to know people by making jokes.”
“First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.”
Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.”
“First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.”
“First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.”
“First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great”
“First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.”
“First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.”
Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts
“First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence.”
“First, at a certain point, I wanted to have my own magazine, but I never could. Why? Because I am not commercial enough. The people who would have been able to give me my own magazine, they were not insulting me, but they would simply say, "It wouldn't work for you." And that was a big disappointment to me.”
“First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.”
“First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.”