Best may & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.”

Ifs Firsts May Moving Player Kings Demand Moved Touched Opposing

Author:Howard Staunton

“It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.”

Should Writing Firsts May Students Thirds Disappointed

Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we have been taught, so that we may keep our souls unenslaved and absolutely free from domination by any of the visible things loved for the sake of the body. Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not be guilty of living for the sake of eating. The first is a sign of intelligence, the second proof of its absence.”

Firsts May Has Beens Soul Shows Body Christian Taught Praying Eating Sake Proof Absence Satisfied Guilty Visible Orthodox Domination Praying To God Present Life

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.”

People Knows Firsts May Play Film Roles Stage Comfortable Theater Wings Screens Know Me First Love

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.”

Men Firsts May Space Hips Charm

Author:Alexei Sayle

“Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.”

“Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.”

Trying Firsts May Book Definitions Deny Defined Rest Of Your Life Define You

Book:The Path to the Nest of Spiders

Source: The Path to the Nest of Spiders

“Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.”

Firsts May Book Self Reason Body Desire Conflict Angry Attraction Description Republic Passages Plato Founding Overwhelmed Unworthy Acknowledgment Plato S

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.”

Source: The Idea of Justice

“At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.”

Firsts Believe May Reading Found Talking Mom My Mom Seats

Author:Reese Hoffa

“When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.”

World Firsts May Made Different Hate Church Messages

Author:Martyn

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?”

Firsts May Stills Song Sky Color Spring Wings Speed Flight Southern Chill Blast Hue Bluebird

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.”

Men Firsts May Lasts Race Greed Avarice

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he received a fulnesss and thus he was called the Son of God, because he received not of the fulness at the first." Thus is it with us all. We must work out our salvation and exaltation by coming to this earth. Man must be born into mortality and live and die that he may continue in his progress toward eternal life and exaltation.”

Men Life Firsts May Earth Dies Christ Born Grace Progress Son Eternal Salvation Work Out Mortality Eternal Life Exaltation

Author:Alma P Burton

“Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.”

Firsts May Problem Sin Simple Poor Moral Rich Economics Envy Driven Remedy Consumerism Consumed Consuming Discontent Simple Living

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.”

“If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.”

“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.”

Firsts May Reason Happens Moving Literature Speak Understanding Pleasure Teach Higher Function Mere Affection Sail Oar Rudders

Book:Leaders in literature

Source: Leaders in literature

“We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.”

Thinking Firsts May Originals Former Latter Exception Divides Thinker

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.”

Feels Firsts Wells May Stills Moments Feelings Chance Novel Prove Disappear Endless Satisfied Torture Just One Chapters Dissatisfaction

Author:Emile Zola

“I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.”

Firsts May Matter Found Too Much Concern Edges Reactions Recognition Conventional Composition

Author:Ansel Adams

“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

Men Trying Firsts May Pain Names Causes Powerful Spring Weakness Gains Love Life Trash Quackery

Book:The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

Source: The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

“No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.”

Giving Firsts May Art Might Interesting Masters Insight Good Writers

Book:Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

“There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige”

World Firsts May Faces Desire Fame Achievement Independence Reputation Prestige Independence And Freedom Adequacy

Book:A Theory of Human Motivation

Source: A Theory of Human Motivation

“The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.”

Way Firsts May Two Character Seems Form Ability Failing Greatness Succeed Importance Trials Spite Willingness Flawed Starting Over Measurement Two Ways Ability To Succeed

Author:Guy Finley

“Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.”

Firsts May Littles Stills Principles Study Painting Painter Colour Grounded

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.”

Firsts May Said Given Limits Approach Mathematics Exceed Magnitude

Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.”

Source: The Lightning and the Sun

“Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.”

Firsts May Made Important Faces Common New York Red Tasks Democratic Wave Hearing Common Sense Welcome Flags Speakers Abyss Red Flags Subpoenas

Author:Charles Schumer

“I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.”

Thinking Firsts May Teach Students Paper Finals Hardest Editing Vague Hardest Thing Identification

Author:M. H. Abrams

“Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.”

Firsts May Hundred Crowds Cards Offering Shoppers Sears

Author:Dan Jones

“In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous.”

Firsts May Bits Process Cutting Stage Paper Draws Paint Spontaneous Collages

Book:Paula Rego

Source: Paula Rego

“The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.”

Knows Firsts May Culture Principles Modern Wind Boundaries Connectedness No Boundaries Whirlwind Modern Culture

Author:Mu Xin

“Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?”

Firsts May Said Two Summer Seasons Infinite Compare June Frost

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.”

Want Trying Firsts Wells May Hard Winning Memories Dad Drama My Dad

Author:Kim Su-mi

“In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.”

“At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.”

Firsts May Mean Laughing Personality Tricks Mediums Cartoon Animation Novelty Aisle Pathos

Author:Walt Disney

“No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.”

Ifs Way Mind Firsts May Made Soul Matter Use Evil Sin Acting Moral Figures Judging Personality Guilt Committed Contrary Welcome Rejection Touched Infamy Power Of Thought

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.”

People Years Firsts May Said Jesus Nations Doors Tree Ready Return Persecution Exile Relentless Figs

Book:The Late Great Planet Earth

Source: The Late Great Planet Earth

“At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.”

Writing Firsts Looks May Hard Glances

Book:Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

Source: Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

“Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.”

People Thinking Firsts May Has Beens Eye Together Past Names Son Decided Breaths Witness His Eyes Stamps Luther

Author:Bernhard Rust

“Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.”

Firsts Humans May Earth Levels Sea Ocean Ice Sea Level Rise

Author:John Luther Adams

“It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts May Obvious Valuable Contribution

Author:Morris Graves

“It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.”

Firsts May Happens Three Courses Games Winning Race Week Stage Surprise Incredibles Sunday Retiring Commonwealth Emma Climbers Rosa Lining Up Commonwealth Games

Author:Emma Pooley

“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.”

“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.”

Source: Killosophy

“To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.”

Mind Firsts Humans May Ideas Pain Process Accepting Failing Source Higher Findings Concepts Wide Opening Confusion Human Mind Splits Offensive Unseen Unpredictable Pretentious Intellectualism

Author:Criss Jami

“There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this. I will triumph over you.”

Ifs World Firsts May I Can Real Whole Fantasy Comfort Letting Go First Time Built Independent Clarity Curious Triumph Over You Agony Numbness Vistas

Author:Julie Berry

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