Firsts And Lasts Quotes

• Our first and last love is self-love.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

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• Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

  Charles Simmons

  Lasts, Fool, Firsts

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• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

  Victor Hugo

  Profound, Lasts, Firsts

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Eye, Blood, Two

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Forever, Today

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• The first and last frosts are the worst.

  George Herbert

  Frost, Lasts, Firsts

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.179

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• The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Book, Games

  Michael Chabon (2003). “Summerland”, Thorndike Pr

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• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.

  Victor Hugo

  Horse, Journey, Hands

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• First and last follow each other.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Lasts, Firsts

  Laozi (2009). “Lao-tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years”

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• I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.

  Michel'le

  Thinking, Together, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that.

  Pauly Shore

  Party, Mushrooms, Lasts

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• It's an old, established rule, but "golden hour" lighting is ideal because the first and last hours of sunlight are diffuse and warm. For that reason, women with photos taken outside during those hours tended to look great.

  Amy Webb

  Taken, Looks, Golden

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• When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Beautiful, Father, Thinking

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

  Susan Sontag

  Names, Justice, Acting

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.184, Macmillan

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• An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.

  Andre Maurois

  Running, Son, Men

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• Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.

  Abbi Glines

  Memories, Night, Shapes

  Abbi Glines (2013). “While It Lasts”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.

  Philip Pullman

  Betrayal, Energy, Delight

  Philip Pullman (2015). “The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials 2”, p.255, Random House

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• My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

  William James

  Thinking, Sake, Lasts

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

  Mark Strand

  Lasts, Firsts, Language

  "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Mind, Sound

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• What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

  Roger Sessions

  Profound, Levels, Lasts

  Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press

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• What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Overcoming, Doe, Demand

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.191, A&C Black

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• All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2275, Delphi Classics

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• This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Believe, Forgiving

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