#be the first

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#first #flattery #more #none #proud

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#first #first step #i #i think #little

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#being #first #lose #ones #second

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#bra #burn #days #department #fire

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand. ↗

— Queen Mary

#first #hand #her #kiss #must

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it. ↗

— Holly Near

#believe #day #first #handed #i

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#break #exciting #first #grow #more

Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves. ↗

— Zhao Ziyang

#be the first #communists #concerned #country #enjoy

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#architecture #be the first #believe #convinced #debate

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#first #had #i #invention #made