First Steps Quotes - Page 26

• Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

  Terry Goodkind

  Believe, Firsts, Steps

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.425, Head of Zeus

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• The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Cynical

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Firsts, Steps, Common

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers”, p.197, D. H. Lawrence

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• Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite.

  Dean Koontz

  Running, Believe, Intelligent

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• I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest.

  Lawrence Hill

  Men, Years, Two

  Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

  Daniel Handler

  Journey, Events, May

  "Fictional character: Violet Baudelaire". "A Series of Unfortunate Events", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?

  Erich von Däniken

  Eye, Ideas, Doubt

  Erich von Däniken (1969). “Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past”

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• Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

  Philip James Bailey

  Motivational, Art, Simplicity

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.458

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• Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

  Amy Tan

  Luck, Firsts, Steps

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.112, Penguin

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• Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Gun, Mouths

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Rabbits, Firsts

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• Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Men, Progress

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions

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• The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Mean

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• It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

  Stanley Milgram

  Perception, Puppets, May

  "The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India". Book by V. R. Krishna Iyer, 1979.

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• Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

  Terry Goodkind

  Admitting, Firsts, Steps

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.146, Head of Zeus

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• The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.

  Tony Dungy

  Dream, Commitment, Passion

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• We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

  Oswald Chambers

  Waiting, Use, Firsts

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.110, Discovery House

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• Whoever you are and wherever you find yourself as you seek your way in life, I offer you "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6). Wherever else you think you may be going, I ask you to "come unto Him" as the imperative first step in getting there, in finding your individual happiness and strength and success.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Thinking, Individual Happiness, Way In Life

  "Come unto Me". speeches.byu.edu. March 2, 1997.

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• Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Ignorance, Knowing, Enlightenment

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• It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

  Christine Feehan

  Should Have, Looks, Done

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Sea Storm”, p.174, Penguin

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• Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.

  Tracie Peterson

  Way, Firsts, Steps

  Tracie Peterson (2010). “Morning's Refrain (Song of Alaska Book #2)”, p.92, Bethany House

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• I luv the book first step to forever by justin bieber

  Justin Bieber

  Book, Forever, Firsts

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• Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

  Ann Voskamp

  Doors, Firsts, Steps

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.45, Zondervan

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• I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Green, Firsts, Steps

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• Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

  Kate Morton

  Running, Doors, Next

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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