Top 100 Begin End Quotes
#2. Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.
Roger Zelazny
#3. I want your world to begin and end with me.
E.L. James
#4. The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EMERGE. These are the tensions of conversion and spiritual awakening.
Sue Monk Kidd
#5. Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.
Bakari Kitwana
#6. There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#7. There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin.
Jacqueline Carey
#8. The complications of life do not end at the altar; some might say that this is where they begin.
Julian Barnes
#9. To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.
Martin Buber
#11. Why we started the agency to begin with is to tell stories, and the tools that we're using are constantly changing. Every tool will be right for a different sort of situation, but in the end, it's going to be about your view, your voice, and how you put that all together.
Ron Haviv
#12. If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.
Herman Melville
#13. It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#14. Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.
Scott Neustadter
#15. Is that story really true?" he asked. "Oh, no," said Michael, airily. "It is a parable. It is a parable of you and all your rationalists. You begin by breaking up the Cross; but you end by breaking up the habitable world.
G.K. Chesterton
#16. Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#17. Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.
Stephen Beal
#18. Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.
Victoria Schwab
#19. Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
Matt Taibbi
#20. In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?
Michael Hyatt
#21. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#22. Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Lewis Carroll
#23. Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.
Meir Soloveichik
#24. I am a weapon made of flesh, a sword covered in skin. I was born to kill a king, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin.
Victoria Aveyard
#25. To give my next novel balance, I'm going to begin it with "The start" followed by a dozen carriage returns. It offsets the words, "The end.
Michael Kroft
#26. Growth theory did not begin with my articles of 1956 and 1957, and it certainly did not end there. Maybe it began with 'The Wealth of Nations'; and probably even Adam Smith had predecessors.
Robert Solow
#27. Someone once told me how things begin isn't nearly as important as how they end.
A.E. Croft
#28. Conflict will end, pollution will end, anxiety will end, frontiers and divisions will end. Then love will rise, confluence will rise and harmony will rise, a new revolution will rise, And humans will then begin to thrive.
G.R.K. Reddy
#29. They say all things end. But I say all things begin.
John Shors
#30. I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.
David Rakoff
#31. It was the beginning of the end.
Or perhaps, it was only the end of something that was never meant to begin.
Sherry Thomas
#32. To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#33. I talk of love, a scholar's parrot may talk greek, but, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.
Phil Keaggy
#34. There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end.
Glenn Quinn
#36. People tend to be more tofu-like, able to absorb whatever environment they're dropped into. But where does the adaptability end and your actual personality begin?
Sloane Crosley
#37. Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
Lois Wyse
#38. And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin?
Jules Verne
#39. To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.
John Austin Baker
#40. All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.
Stephen Covey
#41. The end coming before the beginning really even had a chance to begin.
Jennifer E. Smith
#42. I don't know where the sun beams end
and the starlight(start of our lives) begin(s), it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what's right for his own life, it's all a mystery.
Wayne Coyne
#43. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce
#44. You begin with other people's memories and end up with your own.
Marty Rubin
#45. Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!
Henry David Thoreau
#46. Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island.
Will Cuppy
#47. We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.
David Richo
#48. Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
#49. I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
Sri Chinmoy
#50. People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love, and falling in love, but they know now that ... they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin.
Gregory David Roberts
#51. Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy of her hearers, an explanation;
Jane Austen
#52. Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Hour, every Hour, every part of an Hour, every Moment, which in its end does begin again and never ceases to end: a beginning continuing, always ending.
Peter Ackroyd
#53. Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
Robert Blair
#54. Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
Jackson Browne
#55. Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.
Michael R. French
#56. An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#57. Love, My Goddess loves us all, and she gave up Bhelliom willingly out of that love. Bhelliom can't begin to understand love. In the end that may be our only defense against it.
David Eddings
#58. I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.
Scarlett Thomas
#59. When you begin, you envision a better end but, when you get to the end, you see the beginning better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#60. And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts?
Mark Nepo
#61. Some stories end in despair, some begin there
Marty Rubin
#62. Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin--indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we never quite manage to say.
Matthew Flaming
#63. According to Chinese and ancient Ayurvedic medicine, at age 60, women end their householder life and begin to develop their souls. Our fertility stops being about having children and starts being about what we create for ourselves that benefits us and the people around us.
Christiane Northrup
#64. I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain limit and at that point you enter into a little bit of mystery. That for me is the perfect poem: to begin in clarity and to end in mystery.
Billy Collins
#65. People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life.
Carlos Santana
#66. The place smelled of commodes and playing cards, and before I was halfway to the end I had made a firm resolve never to begin to die. For me it would be all or nothing: no half measures, no lingering on the doorstep.
Alan Bradley
#67. Always begin with the end in mind.
Ellen Muth
#68. A kiss must end for another to begin, and it did, and did again.
Laini Taylor
#69. Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
Blaise Pascal
#70. Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk ...
Barry Hughart
#71. Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'
Johnny Vegas
#73. History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#74. Love does not always begin or end the way we wish it would.
C.J. Roberts
#75. We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
#77. There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#78. On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.
Neal Ascherson
#79. The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
Julian Bond
#80. The best endings never end; they begin
Ela Crain
#81. We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
Stephen Covey
#82. Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God's love.
Shannon L. Alder
#83. The moment you begin to consider having more than someone else, you begin to fear you might end up with less than someone else.
David Anthony Durham
#85. It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.
Marie Forleo
#86. If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
#87. I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
Louis L'Amour
#88. The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can't stop here. We must go on. We must take the risks.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#89. Where does one person end and another person begin?
Iris Murdoch
#90. Steiner's teachings begin and end with man but in between is humankind, the earth, the cosmos. Architecture is the same: it too begins and ends with individual man, with everything else within it.
Kenneth Bayes
#91. Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
Bob Gill
#92. So before we end and then begin, we'll drink a toast to how it's been. A few more hours to be complete, a few more nights on satin sheets. A few more times that I can say, that I've loved these days.
Billy Joel
#93. One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
Marcel Pagnol
#95. The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.
Menachem Begin
#96. Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of God? We must begin the habit here and become used to being with God.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#97. The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.
Georg Buchner
#98. Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.
Deepak Chopra
#99. Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
V.S. Naipaul
#100. I don't know where he begins and where I end, but maybe that's the glory of who we've become. We begin and end together. We're a puzzle that fits perfectly together, where we fit nowhere else. And right now we're seeking peace in the only place we know to look - each other.
Lisa Renee Jones
