Only Just Begun Quotes

#1. I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring ... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having ... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.

Jacqueline Carey

#2. They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

Kami Garcia

#3. The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." Now that's horror.

Stephanie Zacharek

#4. I don't ever pray, but I'm praying now. If God could just give me you, I'll never ask for anything else. Please come back to me. We've only just begun. We can get through this. We're not broken ... this can be fixed. I'll fix it for us.

M. Clarke

#5. As if sensing his attention, Paola turned her head towards him and allowed her eyes to close and then open slowly, as though she'd been told that the Crucifixion had only just begun and there still remained a number of nails. The

Donna Leon

#6. This one man dynasty has only just begun.

Randy Orton

#7. I'm Suze Simon," I said. "And you thought being dead was bad? Buddy, your eternal nightmare's only just begun.

Meg Cabot

#8. In which I prevail for a moment over the feelings which have bound me and come to realise that no matter how precariously close to the end it may feel, my life has really only just begun.

Phoebe Gloeckner

#9. We doin it big. Look at what I done. Look at where I'm is. It's only just begun.

Drake

#10. All you ask from me is a little music, but I am much more that I ever thought I was, and I would like to share other things with you that I have only just begun to understand.

Paulo Coelho

#11. I [do not know] when the end of science will come ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. A storm began to brew within Faith. "Why no, Mr Waite. I have only just begun.

MaryLu Tyndall

#13. Well I thought my time was over, but it's only just begun.

Annie Lennox

#14. Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

Swami Vivekananda

#15. Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun ...

Gregory David Roberts

#16. For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and Diana Ross And The Supremes. I also met The Carpenters. I was actually there in the studio when they recorded We've Only Just Begun.

Tony Blackburn

#17. On reflection, I was pleased that I would get the opportunity to keep my pledge to the Skinner brothers, but I slept uneasily that night. I realised that my career as an intelligencer was not over. On the contrary. It had only just begun.

D.W. Bradbridge

#18. The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

Jasper Fforde

#19. With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

Edward Bellamy

#20. Thamsine Granville had not begun the day with the intention of killing Oliver Cromwell.

Alison Stuart

#21. For a long moment, he lay there, staring at a minuscule crack that had begun to reach from one end of the ceiling to the other. Cracks were always there; no matter how well repaired, there would always be weakness.

S.E. Jakes

#22. Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.

Bryan Procter

#23. It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Erich Fromm

#24. By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Stanley Hauerwas

#25. The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.

E. O. Wilson

#26. Benevolence is a world of itself
a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.

Horace Mann

#27. I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

Bernie Leadon

#28. The phony surrender's over; the ceasefire has ended. The final fight for the Republic has begun.

Marie Lu

#29. The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

William James

#30. Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

Bobby Helms

#31. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.

Kaiden Blake

#32. When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Helen Rowland

#33. So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

John Mayer

#34. And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts of poems and there were the drafts of my poem, Wild Gratitude, and I saw that I had begun the poem with the title August 13th.

Edward Hirsch

#35. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Carol Goodman

#36. A work well begun is half-ended.

Plato

#37. Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise.

Elora Bishop

#38. Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#39. The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

Joseph Glanvill

#40. Cause i really always knew that my little crime would be cold thats why i got heater for your thighs and i know i know its not your time but bye bye and word to the wise when the fire dies you think its over but its just begun

Avenged Sevenfold

#41. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#42. So wise men avoided Usha. The death of her husband ensured that she became inauspicious. The white sari wrapped itself around her shaking body and the lily of her youth wilted before it had even begun to flower.

Paul Haston

#43. Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun.

Katherine Harris

#44. In any case, her fight was not over yet - not nearly over. It had only begun. And yes, Cleo would be strong. Just as her father and Emilia had asked her to be. She would be strong. She would reclaim her rightful throne. She would be queen.

Morgan Rhodes

#45. Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.

Barry Nalebuff

#46. I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.

Teddy Pendergrass

#47. Forever in your arms
Is where I want to be
Holding you close
Within the space
That once held only me ...
Forever in your warmth
The place for me and you
I feel the sun
Our life's just begun
I know you feel it too

Walter Dean Myers

#48. We just hold each other. Where I was once lost, he's found me. But I know now that I have only begun to truly discover Chris. He's still lost.

Lisa Renee Jones

#49. It seemed like a long time and also it seemed like my trip had just begun, like I was only now digging into whatever it was I was out here to do. Like I was still the woman with the hole in her heart, but the hole had gotten ever so infinitesimally smaller.

Cheryl Strayed

#50. I'm feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I've forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I've begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.

Roger Angell

#51. The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"

Peter Drucker

#52. It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.

Garth Brooks

#53. It is not enough to celebrate Christmas. We need to be changed and shaped by what we are celebrating. If our spiritual life is no better in spite of all our praying, fasting, and church services, then we have not yet begun to fully respond to the significance of Advent and of the Nativity.

Vassilios Papavassiliou

#54. I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

Sean Astin

#55. I want to go back to the Flock, of course. I've barely begun with the new group!

Richard Bach

#56. At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#57. Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break my heart, don't ring out.

Anna Akhmatova

#58. Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

Jan Struther

#59. I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Peter Carey

#60. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.

Carl Sagan

#61. Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#62. Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.

George Monbiot

#63. Thus old men are honoured with a particular respect, yet all the rest fare as well as they. Both dinner and supper are begun with some lecture of morality that is read to them; but it is so short that it is not tedious nor uneasy to them to hear it.

Thomas More

#64. When the universe was young, it took a breath, then sighed with a longing so deep, so ancient, that it stole God's attention for a moment. The sigh brushed God's cheek and He recognized it as the breath of love. In that moment God wished for another. The yearning had begun.

Kate Belle

#65. Your life's just begun and there's a ton of things out in the world you've never laid eyes on. Things you never could imagine.

Haruki Murakami

#66. Do you realize i havent even begun to scratch the surface of the things i want to do to you?

Meredith Wild

#67. No matter her heartache, she'd begun to embrace whatever was handed to her, shrugging with a broody spirit to enter fully within.

Laura Frantz

#68. It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that you have, that you can claim to have been educated at all.

Christopher Hitchens

#69. Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

Thomas Keller

#70. Love gratified is love satisfied,
and love satisfied is indifference begun

Samuel Richardson

#71. People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

Peter O'Toole

#72. The bankruptcy wars changed me forever. Even before this grinding battle, I had begun to understand the terrible squeeze on the middle class. But it was this fight that showed me how badly the playing field was tilted and taught me that the squeeze wasn't accidental.

Elizabeth Warren

#73. That melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

Marcel Proust

#74. Neither of us wanted to say it first. But our two souls had become one in a realm no one else could venture into. The immortal coil of passion had wrapped around us forever. It had begun with lust and attraction and blossomed into so much more. Fear of rejection kept us from declaring it.

Sherry Soule

#75. The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.

Kim Dotcom

#76. I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Rita Dove

#77. To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things,

Anne Bradstreet

#78. She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

George R R Martin

#79. During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.

Akhil Sharma

#80. At long last, somebody believes in her. Tonight in this exchange she has gained the tools with which she will build her self esteem: She has been chosen and she has security. Maybe this is all that a person ever needs to succeed. Pearl has been picked, and that has begun to define her.

Adriana Trigiani