#opening

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#chapters #clear #concerning #earth #god

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#about #closing #door #during #guess

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#beautiful #closer #dr #dream #each

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#always #ball player #baseball #baseball player #best

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#confuse #element #endowments #equal #equality

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#audience #begin #grabs #i #i think

I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#anybody #around #being #best #cool

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#summer #spring

That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either. ↗

— Janet Kagan

#opening-lines #science-fiction #science

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? ↗

— Erich Segal

#first-lines #loss #opening-lines #love