#chant

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#bed #different #enchantment #event #fall

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#first #habit #knowing #nature #neither

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#anything #assuming #become #believing #disenchanted

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#dim #enchantment #haze #mystery #pursuit

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#enchanter #fantasy #heart #imagination #magic

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. ↗

— Anatole France

#cheated #had #honest #honest people #merchant

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant. ↗

— Richard Morris

#devoted #record #record stores #sections #stores

Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant. ↗

— Richard Morris

#easily #latin #obtained #participation

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#concerned #difficult #ever #going #i

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#constitute #country #does #draw #gains