#first

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you. ↗

— Enya

#first #formula #journey #lift #little

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#juliet #love-at-first-sight #lovey-dovey #play #retarded

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#capable #choose #completion #decide #doing

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. ↗

— Chanakya

#by the time #children #darling #first #five

Forgive your enemies, but first get even. ↗

— Lester Cole

#first #forgive #get #your

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#casualty #first #graveyard #implies #keep

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale. ↗

— Phil Collen

#first #get #i #i think #large

I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with. ↗

— Robert Culp

#behavior #down #first #had #happen

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#appeared #books #both #commercially #complete

Happiness lies first of all in health. ↗

— George William Curtis

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