"We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second."

-- Horace Walpole

#Firsts Quotes #Repent Quotes

“It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.”
“Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds.”

Source : Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.imdb.com. August 21, 2017.
“It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.”
“Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote”

Source : Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”
“I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.”

Source : Song: Red Rain
“I love the voice - itâ€™s the most perfect instrument ever heard. Itâ€™s God given.”
“When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.”
“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

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