Best first-time & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.”

Way Firsts Ends Enough Wanted Fall Sports Four Changed First Time Albums June Had Enough Singles Billboards Top 10

Author:Huey Lewis

“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.”

World Firsts Ends Lasts First Time

Author:Joanne Harris

“The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.”

Firsts Ends Three Levels Week Acceptance First Time Following Locals Granted Application Filling Membership Initiate Snacks Initiation Freeman Lodges

Author:Adam Rex

“There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.”

People Thinking Firsts Has Beens Ends Would Be Freedom Too Much Generations One Thing First Time Rate

Author:Rose Macaulay

“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

“For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.”

Men Firsts Ends Reality Names Talking Authority First Time Realism American History Emergencies Realist Paranoid Crackpots

Author:C. Wright Mills

“If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Ends Enjoy Company Comfortable First Time Cooking Dinner Spending Kitchen Holiday Preparing Recipes Cooking For Others

Author:Rachael Ray

“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.”

“The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally stops increasing because the cosmos cannot get any more disordered. Nothing happens, and it keeps not happening, forever. It's what's known as the heat-death of the universe. An era when the cosmos will remain vast and cold and desolate for the rest of time the arrow of time has simply ceased to exist. It's an inescapable fact of the universe written into the fundamental laws of physics, the entire cosmos will die.”

“I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'”

People Ifs Knows World Firsts Said War Ends Play Shows Wanted Journey First Time Productions War Of The Worlds World War I Festivals Edinburgh

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Persons Stills Ends Care Found Behinds Quality First Time Loud Gave Up Bossy

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.”

Firsts Ends Past Time Power Generations Mankind First Time Nuclear Weapons Disarmament

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.”

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“The first time I go out to Nashville, ever (at this point I had only heard the rumors about what it's like) I had three writing sessions set up. The first two canceled on me. I was kind of pissed off at that point. So I just went back to my hotel room and started writing. And even though I've been to L.A. and experienced a lot of things, at the end of the day I just start to feel like I'm playing acoustically at the first bar I ever played at.”

Feels Writing Firsts Kind Two Ends Three Rooms Heard First Time Bars The End Of The Day Hotel Session Rumor Nashville Hotel Rooms Pissed Off

Author:Curtis Grimes

“Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it.”

Firsts Ends Play Moments Pain Suffering Song Week Months First Time Spending Worth It Pain And Suffering

Author:Five for Fighting

“The love is so powerful that both people have to surrender. I think that's the funny thing about dating somebody for the first time, it's kind of a question of who wears the pants, or who's gonna text you first, how much am I supposed to put myself out there, and it makes you feel a little bit crazy. But at the end of the day, it's not about that. And if it's the right person you don't have to worry about that.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Firsts Kind Littles Persons Ends Bits Love Is Powerful Worry Crazy Little Bit First Time Dating Surrender The End Of The Day Pants Funny Things Right Person

Author:Zella Day

“The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.”

Firsts Long Ends Home Eye Felt Class Sun Meditation Long Time Singing Yoga First Time Moved Cried

Author:Zoe McLellan

“The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end. For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world. In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.”

“At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.”

Knows Firsts Said Ends Next Felt Difficult Heard First Time Make Sense Murphy

Book:I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”

Firsts Ends Suffering Fall Evil Silence Heard Crime Cry Horror Thousand Summer Hundred First Time Rain Spread Invisible Tyranny Tyrants Blanket Unendurable Butchery

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition. (Written in 1949, 22 years before the World Trade Center was completed.)”

“A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.”

“The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives.”

Firsts Ends Beautiful Tree Feet First Time Perfection Lays Fallen Crisps

Book:The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Long Ends Home Felt Taken Cry Ready Long Time Understood First Time Evening Fading Begin Again Respite Close To Death

Author:Albert Camus

“The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.”

Knows Want Firsts Ends Age Jobs Faces Guy Realizing Simple Middle Worst Youth Particular First Time Worst Things Middle Ages

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.”

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Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.”

Ifs Way Firsts Said Ends Hard Names First Time Breaths Hearing Caress William Herondale

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.”

“They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.”

Firsts Ends Lying Realizing Existence Millions Disease First Time Protection Fence Lied Regulators

Author:Lauren Oliver

“The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.”

Knows Firsts Littles Ends Left Behinds Know How Four Balance One Day First Time My Family Tables Legs Unstable Stools Sturdy

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.”

Knows Firsts Ends Dies First Time Died Caught Syphilis Farewell To Arms

Book:A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

Source: A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

“When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to you." "I won't." "Make them work for it. Punch someone if you have to." John gives me a sad, crooked smile. "You're a scary kid. So scare them. Okay? All the way until the end." For the first time in a long time, I feel like a little brother. I have to swallow hard to keep my eyes dry. "Okay," I whisper.”

“And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.”

Men Firsts Ends Age Lasts Loss Grief Saws Fate Strange First Time Accounts Lays Wounds Weariness

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.”

“I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.”

Knows Men Should Firsts Ends Fall Wonder Know How Tree Rocks First Time Falling In Love Clouds I Realized Miserable Do You Know Climax

Book:The Ballad of the Sad Café

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café

“and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.”

Firsts Believe Ends Wanted First Time Believe In Me

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.”

Firsts Ends Might Lying Realizing Disease First Time

Author:Lauren Oliver

“[...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. It was alien to me and I to it.”

World Firsts Made Ends Dies Felt First Time Aliens Urges Disgusting Hostile

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

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