Can Start Quotes

#1. There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

Loni Anderson

#2. a small spark can start a great fire

Emmet Fox

#3. You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.

Michael Beckwith

#4. As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so that the brick isn't even there, but obviously it is because Moe can hit Curly on the head with it. It's quite bizarre and all relative.

Brad Warner

#5. I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

Wilford Brimley

#6. When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

Stephen Richards

#7. Every human being wants to be seen, really seen, by another human being, not as a statistic in some sociological study, not as a casualty of poverty, not as a victim of a corrupt social structure. We can start by seeing both what is and what can be.

Nancy Rue

#8. One person is enough to inspire the world. One quote can quench the souls of millions. One voice can start a revolution. One dream can tap into the dreams of many, naturally strengthened
as it grows to inspire an ever-increasing number of people.

Elaina Marie

#9. Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. It's not like you can start pounding drinks when you're wheeling your kids all over. They gave me something to shoot for, a goal to get back to.

Chris Pronger

#11. Assad has to be removed, and then you have to actually put someone in that is a qualified leader that can start to build some trust in that area.

James Lankford

#12. You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

Anthony Fauci

#13. Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

Gary Hamel

#14. You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

Sara Bareilles

#15. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

George Lucas

#16. A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.

Charles Duhigg

#17. Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area.

V.S. Naipaul

#18. It is only when we see the worst that Man can offer, that we begin to see the best that Man still holds. If they are blinded by greed, then it's time to pick up our virtual stones so we can start knocking sense into 'em...

Faith Brashear

#19. I should say something but I don't know where a person can start.

Junot Diaz

#20. Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.

Greg Lynn

#21. We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.

William J. Clinton

#22. You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

Robin Williams

#23. She pulled a small box from her pocket.
"There's one more task," Aelin said, holding the box out to Lysandra. "You'll probably hate me for it later. But you can start by saying yes."
"Proposing to me? How unexpected.

Sarah J. Maas

#24. I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.

George Carlin

#25. I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

Charles Bukowski

#26. I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?

Janet Morris

#27. You can start from where you are with what you've got and go to where it is you want to go.

Zig Ziglar

#28. There is no easy or quick plan to happiness, there is no single spot where you can start. Where you are right now is the best place to begin.

Mark Twain

#29. You don't have to wait until something or someone is gone to appreciate the true value; you can start today!

Mary Rodwell

#30. The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process. We have some evidence that suggests that. We don't have a Big Bang, but we have a lot of little pops! A continuous set of little pops!

Edgar Mitchell

#31. Why wait to get old and dream about the things you could have done, when you can start now and look back on the things you did.

Allan Walsh

#32. A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

Jim Rohn

#33. Do you realize that your life at this very moment is the result of everything that you have ever thought , done , believed , or felt up until now ? You can start right now to consciously and deliberately attract whatever you desire in this lifetime.

Jack Canfield

#34. Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Nancy Gibbs

#35. The horse is by Nature a very lazy animal whose idea of heaven is an enormous field of lush grass in which he can graze undisturbed until his belly is full, and after a pleasant doze can start filling himself up all over again.

Elwyn Hartley Edwards

#36. When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone ... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

Felix Dennis

#37. We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop following the heart of discontentment and doubt.

Candace Cameron

#38. Remember, if you fail you can start a new life for yourself in North Carolina.

Grace Helbig

#39. The best thing that can happen to anybody is to be sacked or made redundant because often that's when you think, "I don't want to become one of the living dead. I haven't got anything to lose, now I can start to follow my own dreams."

Tom Hodgkinson

#40. Each day is a new beginning. You can start fresh, anticipating what today will bring. Or you can just settle for yesterday's doubts, fears, or worries. Which road will you take? Do you take the path to the clear present or the the shadows of the past?

Eve Evangelista

#41. I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.

Shannyn Sossamon

#42. You're not a virgin and you didn't get divorced, but suddenly there's this thing you can start doing again with someone who is not your husband.

Ann Benjamin

#43. It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

Jim Dale

#44. Change your thinking and you can change your life. Once you have a vision of how you want your life to be you can start living your dream.

Infinite Ideas

#45. The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

P. J. O'Rourke

#46. Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

Amos Oz

#47. If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

Dalai Lama

#48. Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve people's needs in a more efficient, integrated way.

Paul Meyer

#49. We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.

Neil Jackson

#50. You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.

Tom Clancy

#51. When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

Jen Hatmaker

#52. You have to be again innocent, ignorant, not knowing anything, so that the questions can start arising again. Again the inquiry becomes alive, and with the inquiry becoming alive you cannot vegetate. Then life becomes an exploration, an adventure.

Rajneesh

#53. My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

Anthony Horowitz

#54. Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide ... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.

Warren Farrell

#55. Waiting for the pen to dry up so he can start fresh with thoughts that are worth new ink.

Brian Andreas

#56. Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.

Tracie Peterson

#57. But you can't start over
Only a boy can start over
You and me
Why, we're all that's been

John Steinbeck

#58. We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.

Meg Wolitzer

#59. Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

Roshon Fegan

#60. Don't be sad because it's over. Be happy because you can start over.

Ria Tumimomor

#61. You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

C.S. Lewis

#62. The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

Megan McCafferty

#63. You can either spend your money on real food, or you can start sending your local hospital a check every month, because sooner or later, that is where your money is going to end up.

T.C. Hale

#64. At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one. (from Vanishing Acts)

Jodi Picoult

#65. The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

Michelle Williams

#66. I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

David Wenham

#67. If you're consumed with God's life, if you share his love with others, if you practice it each day, you too can start a revolution of love in your own home, in your own church, in your own neighborhood.

George Sweeting

#68. Peace can start with just one heart.

Holly Near

#69. Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Honore De Balzac

#70. Your enthusiasm for learning gives me hope for the future," he said. "We can start right now if you'd like. You don't seem to be ... working

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#71. 'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.

John De Mol Jr.

#72. I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

River Phoenix

#73. I'm surprised Thorne hasn't asked if he can start leading guided tours down here. I bet you could charge a hefty admission fee." Cinder snorted. "Please don't plant that idea in his head.

Marissa Meyer

#74. If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

Aaron Ross

#75. I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

Courteney Cox

#76. Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign ... you can start small, and that's just as important.

Blake Mycoskie

#77. Stories can start revolutions.

Katherine Rundell

#78. It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake.

S.J. Parris

#79. It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

Tim Hetherington

#80. For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

Norman Maclean

#81. Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

Tania Bruguera

#82. We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like.

Barack Obama

#83. There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan.

Groucho Marx

#84. We can ... start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#85. All of life is change. When we learn to stop fighting it, that's when we can start to be happy.

Traci Depree

#86. You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Maurice Sendak

#87. Sometimes, you have to raze things to the ground before you can start over. Sear away the past, to pave the way for a bright future.

Julie Johnson

#88. In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

Robert Breault

#89. When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.

Ralph Fletcher

#90. It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.

Richard Prince

#91. You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.

Nelson Mandela

#92. Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.

Edgar Mitchell

#93. We each have a spark of life inside of us, that can start a fire. You can choose to burn down a room or to brighten it with light.

Jose N. Harris

#94. Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

Julia Quinn

#95. What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.

Douglas Adams

#96. You're safe here and you can start fresh. Your slate is clean with me.

K.A. Tucker

#97. For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

Brad Pitt

#98. As soon as I saw the three-bin stainless steel pot sink, exactly like ours, I felt instantly at home and fell into peeling potatoes and scraping plates for the dishwasher like it was my own skin. And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start.

Gabrielle Hamilton

#99. When I work, I wear pants usually because I want to be comfortable. I wear dark colors, especially in winter, because I don't want to concentrate on myself but on what I'm working on. Because I really, really love clothes, I can start to think too much about myself. It's distracting.

Donatella Versace

#100. In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.

Kelli O'Hara