Top 16 Great First Sentence Quotes
#1. He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways of loving than there are ways of being happy, but it would take another book to explain them all.)
Francois Lelord
#2. An over examination of life can deter you from life itself
Ilyas Kassam
#3. I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.
Caroline Wozniacki
#4. I wonder what kind of sound it would make if I were to smash this glass against the side of his head.
Colleen Hoover
#5. Not all the things you understand are the truth, and not all the things you don't understand are lies.
Bob Ong
#6. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.
Bertrand Russell
#10. Memory is a magpie after chips of colored glass and ribbon rather than the upright accuracy of objective sequence.
Larry Woiwode
#11. For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.
John Sung
#12. Once again, the wheel was turning; the time for rest was over.
Don Bradley
#13. Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.
Dorothy Norman
#14. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Rafael Sabatini
#15. That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
Robert Harris
#16. All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.
Kiran Desai
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