Beginning Of The End Quotes

#1. Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. Belief is not the beginning of knowledge- it is the end.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Havelock Ellis

#4. The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

Sri Aurobindo

#5. Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

Abbas Kiarostami

#8. From beginning to end, the biblical story is the story of the creation of humanity, the fall of humanity, and the redemption of humanity.

Thomas C. Oden

#9. The beginning of conscious life was the end of illusion, the illusion of non-being, and the eruption of the real. The triumph of realism over magic, of is over seems.

Ian McEwan

#10. I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence. By

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Anonymous

#12. We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness

Voltaire

#13. A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Julie Burchill

#14. In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well.

Mitch Albom

#15. He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of the end, though few recognize it as such at the time.

Alma Katsu

#16. If you're going to download an MP3, as a recording, it's sort of like an archive of something that has happened - that has a beginning and an end and can be released. The infiniteness escaped.

Tristan Perich

#17. People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#18. Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.

Angela Davis

#19. When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. Death is not the end; it is the beginning of the new life, the eternal life.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.

Susan Butcher

#22. Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

Kristin Hannah

#23. Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

Heinrich Zimmer

#24. With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.

Luke Taylor

#25. Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Jay Samit

#26. Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

Alvan Macauley

#27. And that was the end of the beginning of that

Ernest Hemingway,

#28. There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

Carolyn Forche

#29. For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.

George Schaller

#30. Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

Virchand Gandhi

#31. It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

Chris Womersley

#32. Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy.

Duane Chapman

#33. Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart ... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.

Julie Powell

#34. That was the beginning of the Cuban missile crisis - a confrontation between the two giant atomic nations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which brought the world to the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind. From

Robert F. Kennedy

#35. 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

#36. In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

Gautama Buddha

#37. The end of the idyll was implicit in the beginning: I at least knew that, though you might not. And also that the more enchanted the idyll the greater must be the pain of its ending. That won't endure. Hearts don't really break, you know.

Georgette Heyer

#38. Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

Robert Fulghum

#39. When we smuggle our conclusions into our investigation by beginning with them as an initial premise, we are likely to beg the question and end up with conclusions that match our presuppositions rather than reflect the truth of the matter.

J. Warner Wallace

#40. Before the Titanic, all was quiet. Afterward all was tumult. That is why, to anybody who lived at the time, the Titanic more than any other single event marks the end of the old days, and the beginning of a new, uneasy era.

Walter Lord

#41. Of course, people discovering true love works out badly for everyone, really. I mean, it's okay in the end- once everyone settles down and stops making a big fuss about it. But fairly near the beginning, there is a massive test of everyone's patience and love- a wedding.

Caitlin Moran

#42. For some it is the end of the rope. For others it is only the beginning.

Michael Dobbs

#43. Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

Thomas Aquinas

#44. Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Marshall McLuhan

#45. Any second can be the beginning of anything; any second can be the end of anything! Welcome to our universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#46. Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

Larry Williams

#47. The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

Kenko Yoshida

#48. But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.

Aristotle.

#49. Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

Marjane Satrapi

#50. Oh! Death! You are the savior of life.
You are the shelter of life.
You are the destination of life.
You are the beginning and the end of life.
You are the center of the circle of life.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

Dejan Stojanovic

#52. Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

#53. We're going to see even more empty restaurants and out of work waiters if fewer of us can pay for our meals. And the end of Taco Tuesdays is only the beginning. When

Anat Shenker-Osorio

#54. In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

Rabbi Akiva

#55. At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.

Victor Hugo

#56. Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

D.H. Lawrence

#57. And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.

Aspen Matis

#58. The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

Leon Wieseltier

#59. When we fail, we think that is the end of life. Actually, it is the beginning of a greater life when we persistently preserved.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#60. A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Paul Bourget

#61. Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won't be an end.

Tony Robbins

#62. Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

William Arthur Ward

#63. He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#64. A relationship is like a holiday from loneliness, beginning and ending in the same airport. The most awful thing about the end is that it reminds you so clearly of the beginning with the joy with which you set off. Everything is the same, yet everything has been inverted by grief.

Louis Buss

#65. It was the beginning of the end.
Or perhaps, it was only the end of something that was never meant to begin.

Sherry Thomas

#66. Conversion is not merely a ticket out of hell. It is the beginning of a whole new life, not just an end to the old one.

Aimee Byrd

#67. South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

Nikki Haley

#68. All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.

Milton Glaser

#69. We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.

Martin Luther

#70. We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.

Lauren Groff

#71. People who live on continents get into the habit of regarding the ocean as journey's end, the full stop at the end of the trek. For people who live on islands, the sea is always the beginning. It's the ferry to the mainland, the escape route from the boredom and narrowness of home.

Jonathan Raban

#72. To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.

Herb Ritts

#73. You are the beginning and the end - the best part of my story - the best part of who I am.

Addison Moore

#74. The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.

H.P. Lovecraft

#75. It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.

Steve Yarbrough

#76. No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Nicole Krauss

#77. For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I thing they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

Alexandra Bracken

#78. He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.

Virginia Woolf

#79. That's how it ends
So, this is it.
when we lose it all
but
this is not the End
This is only
The Beginning of the End

Rixa White

#80. For one, dazzling, infinite moment, August felt like he was standing on a precipice, the end of one world and the beginning of another, a whisper and a bang.

Victoria Schwab

#81. But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#82. Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

Jeanette Winterson

#83. Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

Philip Schaff

#84. The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

Karen Russell

#85. Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

Jane Austen

#86. Every end is the beginning of something else.

M.L. Stedman

#87. For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.

J.M. Barrie

#88. It is the beginning of the end.
[Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#89. I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

Anonymous

#90. There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.

Pope Gregory I

#91. To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning.

John Frankenheimer

#92. When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.

Zac Efron

#93. It was like the beginning of the end of the world.

Kenneth Eade

#94. The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.

Jenny Shipley

#95. Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

Will Smith

#96. There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end being a utopia of happiness that we'll reach through socialism or free trade or democracy, and then it will all be wonderful.

Pankaj Mishra

#97. Dorian said, "So here we are." "The end of the road," Aelin said with a half smile. "No," Chaol said, his own smile faint, tentative. "The beginning of the next.

Sarah J. Maas

#98. What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

Anselm Kiefer

#99. The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human - not just primitive - that we all have hearts that beat at a steady rate and don't stop ... reminds me of life itself. In that sense my music is like certain popular music where the rhythm drives from beginning to end.

Michael Torke

#100. The Innocent Mage is come , and we stand at the beginning of the end of everything

Karen Miller