#first

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. ↗

#cover-up #first #first amendment #red #red tape

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#begun #criminal #criminal penalties #first #gave

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice. ↗

— Gresham Barrett

#choice #first #necessary #never #sometimes

And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#address #dollars #first #foremost #like

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#escapism #first-sentence #opening-lines #reality #sanity

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#prison

It was a pleasure to burn. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#opening-lines #pleasure

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. ↗