Beginning Of Quotes

#1. We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.

Ayn Rand

#3. We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.

Simon Tugwell

#4. Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.

John Leguizamo

#5. Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

Daryl Hall

#6. As we discussed earlier, the gospel is "folly to Gentiles" (1Co 1:23) not only because of its message (namely, a crucified Messiah crowned King of kings in his bodily resurrection as the beginning of the new creation) but because of its very form.

Michael S. Horton

#7. Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

David Toop

#8. Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

Al Franken

#9. Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

Helen Fisher

#10. The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

Paracelsus

#11. If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

Douglas W. Phillips

#12. Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.

Robin Sharma

#13. Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.

Shawn Amos

#14. Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. When fear overwhelms truth and love, we call it pain. Our spirit as women has all the knowledge and power we need to give birth and to nurture our babies. It is in our genetic coding. It has been there since the beginning of time. You can trust its wisdom.

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

#16. But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

Martin Feldstein

#17. The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Alec-Tweedie

#18. That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

Patricia A. McKillip

#19. Before one can become a magician he must learn to control his own mind; for mind is the substance with which the magician acts, and the power to control it is the beginning of magic.

Franz Hartmann

#20. Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

Hu Jintao

#21. Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

Hillary Clinton

#22. On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

Katherine Paterson

#23. In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

Simon Van Booy

#24. At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

Miranda Lambert

#25. I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

Joyce Carol Oates

#26. When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

Andy Goldsworthy

#27. I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey.

Mike Yaconelli

#28. The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.

Burton Silverman

#29. Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.

Iimani David

#30. I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Bertrand Russell

#31. Knowing the true isolation of being marks the beginning of love for others.

Jack Sanger

#32. History has been conceived
and with high justification in the records
as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Mary Ritter Beard

#33. I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.

Julius Erving

#34. Death is not an means to an end but the beginning of life with God

Jennifer Hoover

#35. For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

Jim Jarmusch

#36. Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Virginia Woolf

#37. The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

Karl Marx

#38. The end of the World depends on us. True friendship is the end of the World, the beginning of our play together. The secret is to begin at the end.

Anonymous

#39. The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.

Athol Fugard

#40. He kissed her temple, her hair, and then her mouth again, with great passion and heartbreaking tenderness. My Love ... from the beginning of time until the end. Always and forever. You'll always be my love. Always.

Patricia Ryan

#41. The beginning of the end for trans fats came not from any American scientist, since critics of trans fats in the US research community had effectively been marginalized. Instead, it came from Holland:

Nina Teicholz

#42. How do jokes work? The beginning of each good one challenges you to think.

Kurt Vonnegut

#43. Life is usually loved more than our most sacred love. In that knowledge lies the beginning of our cruelty and of our survival.

Josephine Hart

#44. In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

Garrett Neff

#45. Love it's not supposed to be complicated. It must be easy. It should not need begging and imploring. Love must be simple, because it's just the beginning of a long journey.

Kambiz Shabankareh

#46. Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.

C.F.W. Walther

#47. There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

John D. Barrow

#48. I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

Lauren Bacall

#49. Because the Lord hears their cries and feels your deep compassion for them, He has from the beginning of time provided ways for His disciples to help. He has invited His children to consecrate their time, their means, and themselves to join with Him in serving others.

Henry B. Eyring

#50. At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.

Gail Collins

#51. I started in the late 70s, beginning of the 80s, and I think I started to sing and make music as a therapy for myself; I never planned to be an artist; sometimes when I think about it it's crazy that I'm here, and I'm touring, and I'm doing what I'm doing.

Mari Boine

#52. I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

Barbara Mikulski

#53. God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.

Ted Cruz

#54. I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#55. Self-acceptance isn't the beginning of happiness; it's at the core of peaceful and happy living.

K.J. Kilton

#56. Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

#57. People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.

Richelle Mead

#58. It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away.

Annie Dillard

#59. Our kiss eclipses all others, real, imagine, dreamed of. It is the beginning of time, it is the end of the ages.

Ellen Hopkins

#60. It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.

Luke Evans

#61. It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#62. By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett

#63. To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#64. It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

Lauren Holly

#65. The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#66. While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#67. There had been no real coffee in Copenhagen since the beginning of the Nazi occupation. Not even any real tea. The mothers sipped at hot water flavored with herbs. "Annemarie,

Lois Lowry

#68. Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

Fuxi

#69. But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

Martha Ostenso

#70. So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment.

Zora Neale Hurston

#71. Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do.

Jimmy Buffett

#72. Middle age is not the beginning of decline, but a time to reach for the highest in our selves. Middle age is a pause to re-examine what we have done and what we will do in the future. This is the time to give birth to our power.

Frank Natale

#73. The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

Epictetus

#74. The significant question is whether the activity pursued permits the release of tension without resolving the underlying conflict. If so, the conflict still remains, and hence the activity must be engaged in repeatedly. We then may have the beginning of compulsion neurosis.

Rollo May

#75. Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#76. It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

Robert Walpole

#77. At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.

Toussaint Louverture

#78. When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Helder Camara

#79. The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#80. I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

Andre Norton

#81. My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#82. There's always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another.

Henning Mankell

#83. As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.

Sheldon Harnick

#84. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Gustave Flaubert

#85. Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the beginning of life; the beginning of mothering, and of fathering. We all deserve a good beginning.

Sarah J. Buckley

#86. I was more than an elementary teacher, for I was present, or directly taught the children, from eight in the morning to seven in the evening without interruption. These two years of practice are my first and indeed my true degree in pedagogy. From the very beginning of my

Maria Montessori

#87. She was held in the tension just before movement, about to walk back toward the house. Later she would think, If I had turned away, I'd have missed the moment he fell in love.
He would not remember it that way. What he experienced was not so much the beginning of love as a cessation of pain.

Mary Doria Russell

#88. I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'

Jens Lehmann

#89. if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#90. My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

Grace Slick

#91. We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together,

Stewart Butterfield

#92. Women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

Virginia Woolf

#93. Make it a promise to be all that you must be. When you dream of reaching the 100th step; take the 99th as the beginning of your journey and you will go beyond the 101st!

Israelmore Ayivor

#94. The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

David Allan Coe

#95. The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

Petrarch

#96. A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Eda LeShan

#97. To the well organized mind, death is just the beginning of the next adventure.

J.K. Rowling

#98. At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

Hesiod

#99. To the beginning of the rest of our lives.

- Leo

Sherry Thomas

#100. James, at the beginning of his friendship with Edith Wharton.

Hanya Yanagihara