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“For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.”

Firsts May Children Art First Time Guilt Faults Simplicity Spread Charm Novelty Offspring

Book:The vicar of Wakefield, accentuirt mit Wörterbuche von K.R. Schaub

Source: The vicar of Wakefield, accentuirt mit Wörterbuche von K.R. Schaub

“The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.”

Thinking Knows World Should Firsts Form Names Given Poor Existence Accepting Poverty First Time Conclusion Awards Poorest Homage

Author:Mother Teresa

“The first time you do a thing is always exciting.”

Firsts First Time Exciting

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.”

Source: A Pocket Full of Pebbles

“To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.”

Knows Firsts Country Fun Greater Travel First Time Introducing

Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.”

Firsts Done First Time

Author:Simon Bolivar

“I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Firsts First Time Exposed

Author:Amy Grant

“The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.”

Ifs Way Writing Trying Firsts Beautiful Time Nature Simple Attention First Time Discovering Straightforward Skillful Beginners Simple Ways Calligraphy

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.”

People Thinking Firsts Stupid First Time Intelligent Stupidity Shock Discovering Severe

Book:Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas

Source: Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas

“If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.”

Ifs Men Firsts Humans Opinion Five Genius Conversation Hundred First Time Window League Naples

Author:Madame de Stael

“Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.”

Firsts Done Can Do First Time Los Angeles

Author:Roseanne Barr

“If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

“Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.”

Feels Firsts Left Music Careers Stage First Time Concerts Fright Nervousness Stage Fright

Author:Pablo Casals

“He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.”

Needs Mind Firsts Rooms Sun Air Food Months First Time Green Cooking Lays Bottom Shoes Glasses Breathing Culinary Hospitals Lit Rubber Gelato

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.”

Firsts Age Heard Feminism Changed Men And Women First Time Albums Relate

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.”

People Ifs Firsts Said Father Wall Promise First Time Constitution Down And Usa Cobblers

Author:Ben Dreyfuss

“I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.”

People Ifs Firsts Jobs Streets First Time Fake Confused

Author:CM Punk

“High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school, so in some ways it was the nucleus of how it all started. For me I think high school was a period of trying to figure myself out, and poetry was one of the ways I did that, and was a very helpful avenue to try to do that.”

Thinking Way Trying Firsts School Saws Figures Periods High School First Time Helpful Avenues Spoken Word Nucleus

Author:Phil Kay

“The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely clapped...in retrospect the poem was terrible. And for a while I thought this was something I would never do again. And then I realized that, in my 17-year-old head, that was the worst it could have been. And it wasn't that bad - [because] from there, it could only get better. And I think that failure kind of freed me up to explore and not be afraid of failing again.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Kind Has Beens Bigs Failing Worst Fronts Terrible First Time Crowds I Realized Get Better Could Have Been Retrospect Spoken Word

Author:Phil Kay

“Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.”

Firsts Persons Fall Reading Love You First Time Connections Falling In Love Intense Teenager Fewer First Person Unprecedented Reading Experience

Author:John Green

“The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.”

Ifs Way Firsts Different Differences First Time Profound Scripts

Author:David Sedaris

“These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.”

Firsts Guy Consciousness First Time Raised Expected Heels Confusing High Heels Hairdos

Author:Lynda Barry

“The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.”

People Trying Firsts Home Groups Conversation First Time Finding Yourself Coming Home Moss Knitting Stitches

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It”

Mind Firsts Time Practice Activity First Time Experience Insight Skulls Stale

Book:A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

Source: A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

“To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.”

Firsts Birth First Time New Places

Book:The Greengage Summer

Source: The Greengage Summer

“The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.”

Years Firsts Age Mother First Time Twenties Actresses Hunters Autographs

Book:Ingrid Bergman: My Story

Source: Ingrid Bergman: My Story

“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

Feels Firsts Death Mother Born Cities First Time Breaths Blessed Broke Strokes Chamber Crowded Seals Pestilence Bridal Crowded Cities

Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Seems Left Five Alive Reader First Time Appearance Five Years Publish Annuals Proust Posthumous

Author:Janet Flanner

“This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.”

Firsts May Soul Ends Body My Own Known Morning Masters First Time Faithful Beast Companion Sly Devouring

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still. Then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life. It is only needful to place yourself so that if it may come, and then it comes of itself. And then everything turns and changes itself to the best.”

Ifs Firsts May Stills Whole Light Turns Friendship Love Is First Time Calm Faithful Never Change Something Better Accompany Accompany You

Author:Fredrika Bremer

“for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.”

People Firsts Food First Time Fruit Notion Very Good Good Friend Soap Bananas Biting Tropical Very Good Friends

Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

“We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Lasts Evil Lines Divine First Time

Author:Ronnie James Dio

“I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.”

People Ifs Knows Way Should Firsts Moments Life Is Next Realizing Chance Goes On Sitting First Time Meetings Everyday Stranger Get Up Cafes Chance Meeting

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.”

“The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful.”

Firsts Believe Humans States Beautiful Human Beings Saws First Time Shock

Author:Gottfried Helnwein

“I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people.”

People Firsts Country Effort Greatness Materials Pride Proud First Time Red Prosperity Symbols Glorious Afghanistan Flags Magnificent Equipment Serendipity Red Flags

Author:Nur Muhammad Taraki

“The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.”

Thinking Men Firsts Ought First Time Financial Conservative Circles Adopted Nothing New

Author:Frank A. Vanderlip

“I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.”

Ifs Firsts Heart May Important Self Hurt Forget Boys Forever Trouble Lessons First Time

Book:Thirty Girls

Source: Thirty Girls

“the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.”

Firsts Terrible First Time Disappointment Getting Old Resignation Unfairness

Book:The Love Eaters

Source: The Love Eaters

“here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.”

Source: A Year in Van Nuys

“The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.”

Firsts Running Forget Saws Hair Pride Proud Husband First Time Standing Hills My Husband Never Forget Breeze Hair Blowing

Author:Jean Carroll

“I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.”

Firsts Romance Felt First Time Sexuality

Book:No language is neutral

Source: No language is neutral

“Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.”

People Firsts First Time Virgins Sars

Author:Samina Baig

“One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.”

Firsts Heart Home One Day First Time Chaos Welcome Settling Demon Flats Making Peace

Author:Robert M

“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.”

Knows Firsts First Time Piano Sat

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.”

Years Firsts Long Country Found Father Heard First Time Theater Radio Boxes Squares Festivals Carolina North Carolina Banjos Old Year

Author:Pete Seeger

“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

“Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens I Can Wanted School Young Passion Can Do Acting Minutes Stage High School First Time Doctors Theater My Passion Freshman Day Life I Can Do This

Author:Sophia Bush

“There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.”

Way Firsts Two Enough Facts Dies Three Brain First Time Tragedy Settling Expenses Three Things Cocaine Puddles Sinuses

Book:Eve's Hollywood

Source: Eve's Hollywood

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