"I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do."

-- Mark Kozelek

#Giving Quotes #Shooting Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.”
“You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow.”
“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”
“I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.”
“The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. ...I say that chance enters into all branches of art: a chance word or phrase starts a new trend of thought in a writer, a chance sound may bring a new melody to a musician, a chance combination of lines, new composition to a painter. ...Chance - which in reality is not chance - but being ready, attuned to one's surroundings - and grasp my opportunity....”
“I got the Rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on.”
“I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.”

Source : "The Rev Ian Paisley obituary" by Derek Brown and Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2014.
“It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.”

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