This is our in-house version of first world bullying in the global waring debate: i.e, We pollute, you pay.
Arundhati Roy
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes
I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.
Amos Oz
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Honor de Balzac
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop
I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second, and third places, and teaching the fourth.
James O. Fraser
If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless.
Thomas Jefferson
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunities will come your way if you do.
Ronald Cohen
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide-open-heart that thinks of others first.
George Matthew Adams
The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
Paul Clitheroe
The first thing that you lose on a diet is brain mass.
Moran Margaret Cho