#line

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#first-sentence #opening-lines #first-sentence

The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#holiness #obedience #faith

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. ↗

— Adam Ant

#companies #decline #i #live #music

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ↗

— Mark Twain

#delete #editor #every #every time #inclined

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#buzz #calling #clearly #distraction #easy

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ↗

— Mark Twain

#full #good #line #prophesy #risks

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#bottom line #eye #his #horizon #leader

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#another #before #hoping #i #i am

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#anything #buy #com #consumers #destination

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#e-mail #even #forget #get #how