Top 80 Commence Quotes
#2. (Logic meet feelings. The two of you will never see eye to eye. Let the lifelong catfight commence.)
R.K. Lilley
#3. When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#4. She had to admit, she was impressed.
Not that she was going to commence praising on cue. The eagle in him was perfectly capable of preening his own feathers.
Thea Harrison
#5. Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#6. There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.
John Stuart Mill
#7. The classical anthropological question, What is man? - "how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!" - is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture.
Paul Goodman
#8. Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#9. The realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.
Karl Marx
#10. The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
Giacomo Casanova
#11. The Kabbalah says if we have not fulfilled our condition during one life, we must commence another ... until we have acquired the condition that fits our reunion with God.
M.J. Rose
#12. Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#13. The best reformers the world has ever seen
are those who commence on themselves.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in the head. But I reckon it's all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don't understand and cain't answer if he did.
Cormac McCarthy
#15. We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.
Joseph Cook
#16. Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.
Alan C. Martin
#18. Some who grow dull religious straight commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sense.
Alexander Pope
#19. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
#20. The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.
Roger Sherman
#21. was passed authorizing the appointment of a commission to select a site for an additioual lunatic asylum and to commence its erection. A site was selected three miles from Morristown, and 430 acres of land were purchased. An extensive building was erected, at a cost, including land,
Monroe Howell
#22. Layla, darling, I shall be ready whenever you decide to retire to the country and commence on a life of unending debauchery.
Eloisa James
#23. I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.
David Ginola
#24. I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.
Tamora Pierce
#26. Infinitesimally soon, the eternity of his own death would commence and render all of this unreal.
Jonathan Franzen
#27. The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
Ernestine Rose
#28. To begin with a summary of Paine's astonishing life and career is to commence with a sense of wonder that he was ever able to emerge at all.
Christopher Hitchens
#29. Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
James Monroe
#30. Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.
Sarah Bernhardt
#31. I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.
Margaret Cho
#33. Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.
Hosea Ballou
#34. All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
John Amery
#35. Commence," was Monsieur Defarge's not unreasonable reply, "at the commencement.
Charles Dickens
#36. I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?"
"Yes, Uncle Julian?"
"I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.
Shirley Jackson
#37. A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. Let our battle commence, Third War-Hammer Yolathian of Jeradia. I shall not be merciful again.
Marc Secchia
#39. If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
Blaise Pascal
#40. Caia sighed. If this guy knew that he was in a room of lykans, two of which who looked as if they could happily rip him apart, the cockiness would soon dissolve and the peeing of the pants would commence.
Samantha Young
#41. The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.
Robert J. Havighurst
#42. Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
Thomas Jefferson
#43. Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
Henry Brooke
#44. He settled into his ergonomically designed, yet inexpensive, chair and logged into his computer. He could do this. Just turn the computer on, shut brain down, and commence typing until fingers fell off. - Captain Lewis
Jacqueline Patricks
#45. Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
John Bigelow
#46. When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
Billy Crystal
#47. Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
Edward Steichen
#48. Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal.
Wole Soyinka
#49. The ivy of the old age begins at the feet that hurt. (Le lierre de la vieillesse - Commence aux pieds qui blessent.)
Charles De Leusse
#50. The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment ... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
Alfred North Whitehead
#51. When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.
James Montgomery Bailey
#52. If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
Horace Greeley
#53. She cares about fall's magnificence in the rain
The dipping raindrops' dance assigning thence Indicated rhyme that eases her refrain
Before they met - her paces commence.
Victoria Haugnes
#54. Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
Francois Fenelon
#55. Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
Plato
#56. I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.
Anthony Trollope
#57. I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
I shall love myself and love myself.
I shall be my own quest,
My absolute wealth.
The journey of light supreme will commence
In the heart of freedom.
Sri Chinmoy
#58. Interestingly enough, for me, a character like Captain Jack, you feel like you could just continue. The possibilities are endless and limitless. There is any possibility of madness and absurdity that could commence, so you feel that, with this character, you're never really done.
Johnny Depp
#59. Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Benjamin Disraeli
#60. I hope that when I commence that oath, my tongue may cleave to the roof of my mouth. If I ever sign one line to show allegiance, I hope my arm falls paralyzed to my side ... Get out. I'm so disgusted I can't endure your presence any longer.
Belle Boyd
#61. When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
Thomas Eakins
#62. True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.
Charles Spurgeon
#63. Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb
Geraldine Brooks
#65. Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.
Bruce R. McConkie
#66. Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
#67. Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss.
Marlon James
#68. The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.
Dion Fortune
#69. Let's say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.
Ernest Hemingway,
#71. Team Inara, commence Operation Joss-Whedon-Is-A-God.
John Ringo
#72. The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
John Adams
#73. Too much talking and not enough writhing in ecstasy. You will commence writhing now.
Katie MacAlister
#74. It is about a dragon and a prince and a princess." "Oh, lovely! Does it end happily?" "Happily for the humans. Not so well for the dragon." "Just as it should be. Commence.
Michael D. O'Brien
#75. One big blow can hit and destroy any strong door in front of you. As for the 1000 feeble blows, they can't even remove the cobwebs. Courage is the key.
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. Be confident and courageous when you are about to make a start. Courage is key!
Israelmore Ayivor
#77. Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner.
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. Whatever you begin will see the light of day provided you can dream big and be a ruler over your dreams with persistent actions.
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. Every big castle was once started with a single block; despise no small beginnings. A little step taken every day builds up the hope of greater accomplishments. Do something every day!
Israelmore Ayivor
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