Top 100 A Beginning Quotes
#1. The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.
Craig Childs
#2. Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.
Sandra Bullock
#3. They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#4. There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.
Zhuangzi
#6. The traumatic event itself, however horrendous, had a beginning, a middle, and an end, but I now saw that flashbacks could be even worse. You never know when you will be assaulted by them again and you have no way of telling when they will stop.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#7. Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.
Wendell Pierce
#8. And so, we end with a beginning. Because every ending is really a beginning. All you need is a house that's old and creaky ... filled with lots of books ... a cat ... a person who's willing to try again ... someone who promises never to leave ... and most important of all ... a little Hope.
Kate Klise
#9. I think sketch writing is a good spot for everyone to start because it requires you to develop characters, have a beginning, middle and end and have a bunch of jokes in a short amount of time.
Blake Anderson
#10. So many people think being single is the end of something, but it's really a beginning - a good beginning.
Lauren London
#11. People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Steven Spielberg
#12. Do you believe in eternity?
We will encounter each other again and again, as the time goes by, as we change form, we will fall in love and tied together.
We are on top of a never-ending circle, each doesn't have a beginning or an ending.
MISAKI
#13. Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.
Cory Doctorow
#14. Every storm has a beginning, every storm has a perfect moment of bliss and every storm has a destructive end.
Len Webster
#15. Because the lives you had before-that we all had before-we can never get them back. But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock in up behind you. Start fresh.
Alexandra Bracken
#16. The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Woodrow Wilson
#17. Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.
Arthur Eddington
#18. A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.
A.M. Dean
#19. What we call birth
Is but a beginning to be something else
Than what we were before; and when we cease
To be that something, then we call it death.
Ovid
#20. All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett
#21. Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they're alive.
David Eddings
#22. A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Aristotle.
#23. A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard
#24. I couldn't even think of it as a beginning when Jared had forever been my always.
A.L. Jackson
#25. Death is the start of a beginning, life is the start of the end, and the cycle continues forever."
AFTERLIFE - TIM I GURUNG/AUTHOR
Tim I. Gurung
#26. To recognize the hand of the Lord in your life and to accept His will without complaint is a beginning. That decision does not immediately eliminate the struggles that will come for your growth. But I witness that it is the best way there is for you to find strength and understanding.
Richard G. Scott
#27. Even though God could create all kinds of things, he could hardly create himself before he had a "self" to create with. So there was only one possibility left: God had always existed. But she had already rejected that possibility! Everything that existed had to have a beginning.
Jostein Gaarder
#28. [My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about. What you are about. Don't even take a camera into your hands before you figure that out.
Tina Barney
#29. In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.
Henrietta Szold
#30. But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
Sarah Dessen
#31. Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.
Robert Altman
#32. Storytelling is easy. All that's needed is a beginning, a middle and an end, and about 53,000 words. Not true. There is nothing more difficult than inventing a story.
Dennis Macaraeg
#33. Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.
Maury Yeston
#34. The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
Boyd K. Packer
#35. Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.
Marco Brambilla
#36. All good things ... must come to a beginning. What goes up ... may just go higher. Anything that can go wrong ... probably won't if you immerse within it.
Tom Althouse
#37. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.
David Levithan
#39. We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.
Oscar Romero
#40. Cath didn't feel like a mistake to him. She felt like a beginning. A clean canvas, ready to be painted. A gorgeous new idea.
Ruthie Knox
#41. A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
Meghan O'Rourke
#42. Swimmers know full well that every second has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Dara Torres
#43. There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
Gertrude Stein
#44. Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#45. Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.
Hannah Arendt
#46. It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
H.G.Wells
#47. I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
Ray Bradbury
#48. Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
Anselm Kiefer
#49. If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.
Arius
#50. Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.
Pamela Anderson
#51. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?
Gretel Ehrlich
#53. I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.
Jim Butcher
#54. It wasn't love right away, because nothing ever is no matter what the songs say, but it was the start of it. A beginning in one way, and the end in another. I think that might always be true of love.
Amy Garvey
#55. But for today it is working in this
awkward kind of working. And that
is enough for a beginning.
David Levithan
#56. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Jack Kornfield
#57. And because his love for you never had a beginning, it can have no end.
John Piper
#58. The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.
James Badge Dale
#59. There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
Francis Drake
#61. Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.
Jet Black
#62. Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed - but it's a beginning.
Mary Jo Putney
#63. I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.'
James Caan
#64. You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
Brian P. Cleary
#65. An affirmation opens the door. It's a beginning point on the path to change.
Louise Hay
#66. I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
Olga Kurylenko
#67. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
Robert Jordan
#68. A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning.
Walt Whitman
#69. We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#70. His smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema with starlight, pure and bright...his touch hummed in my bones like an aria -- a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise.
Roshani Chokshi
#71. No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration; there is only a mixing and then separating of what was mixed, but by mortal men these processes are named "beginnings.
Empedocles
#72. Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Peter De Vries
#73. The world's not black and white," she tells me. "Life doesn't have good guys and bad guys or a beginning, middle, and end. Not while you're living it. It's just people doing stuff that's beautiful or stupid or somewhere in the middle.
Robin York
#74. Twisted my lips at the thought. "This is a new beginning for us, isn't it?" He leaned forward to brush my nose with his. "No. This is better than a beginning. This is what happens next.
Laurelin Paige
#75. Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.
Barbara Kingsolver
#76. Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#77. Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
T. S. Eliot
#78. At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.
Julia Bacha
#79. Everything must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindus give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise.
Mary Shelley
#80. The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe ... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
John F. Kennedy
#81. Don't be afraid, she tells us. Every end is a beginning. You lived before you were born to me and you will return here after.
Joe Vasicek
#82. Every "Good Bye" said by a true friend, shall always be followed by "Hello" and every happy end shall always be a beginning of something New and Wonderful!
Galina Nelson
#83. Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.
Andrea Brown
#84. For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.
Francis Bacon
#85. I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
Pat Buckley
#86. But just as she turns to walk away she hears him behind her, the word like the opening of some door, like an ending and a beginning, like a wish.
"Wait," he says, and so she does.
Jennifer E. Smith
#87. What was closure if not a clock? Not an end as everyone imagined, but a beginning.
Celeste Chaney
#88. The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Ezra Pound
#89. In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.
Stephen Hawking
#90. Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
George Bernard Shaw
#91. Everything has a beginning, or needs one, and if the beginning's identifiable but not dramatic enough, it needs to be deidentified - located elsewhere.
Joshua Cohen
#92. Anna, I only know this: when it is your turn to die - my turn, anyone's - when it is time for you to let go of one life and reach out for another, you will be left with no choice but to hurl yourself willingly into the mother arms of transfiguration. It's not an end. It's a beginning.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#93. Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.
Richard Dreyfuss
#94. Maybe addictions don't have a beginning. They certainly don't have an end.
Lexi Ryan
#95. Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#96. Just because it's the first time doesn't make it less real, does it? Even the universe has a beginning.
Nicola Yoon
#97. Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#98. There has to be a beginning somewhere and my thing is that I am going to give it all I got.
Terrell Owens
#99. It is rather ironical that in the sixteenth century some people resisted advances in science because they seemed to threaten belief in God; whereas in the twentieth century scientific ideas of a beginning have been resisted because they threatened to increase the plausibility of belief in God.
John C. Lennox
#100. The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
Alan Rickman
