Quotes on Beginning

Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability.

Author: Jean Alesi

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

Author: Jean Alesi

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked.

Author: Sasha Alexander

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

Author: Dante Alighieri

Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.

Author: Carlos Alvarez

At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now.

Author: Gillian Anderson

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

Author: Avi Arad

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Author: Aristotle

It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.

Author: Robert Asprin

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Author: Margaret Atwood

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

Author: Jean Auel

From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.

Author: Bille August

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Author: Saint Augustine

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

Author: Mary Austin

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

Author: Roy Ayers

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.

Author: Lauren Bacall

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

Author: Daniel Barenboim

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

Author: Michael Barnes

You always think you're better than you are in the beginning.

Author: Todd Barry

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

Author: Samuel Beckett

I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.

Author: Paul Begala

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

Author: Ahmed Bella

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

Author: Buffalo Bill

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

Author: Marsha Blackburn

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Author: Alan Bleasdale

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

Author: William Bligh

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

Author: Orlando Bloom

So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.

Author: Jo Brand

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

Author: William Bridges

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Author: Anatole Broyard

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Author: Dave Brubeck

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

Author: Dick Bruna

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

Author: Pat Buckley

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

Author: George Burns

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

Author: Steve Buscemi

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Author: Lord Byron

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

Author: Alex Campbell

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

Author: Marcel Carne

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

Author: Jonathan Carroll

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Author: Lewis Carroll

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Author: Pablo Casals

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Author: Robert Casey

The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

Author: Randy Castillo

Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple.

Author: Crystal Chappell

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Author: Kate Chopin

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Author: Winston Churchill

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Author: Marcus Cicero

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

Author: Helen Clark

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Author: Arthur Clarke

My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.

Author: Benjamin Cohen

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Author: Confucius

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

Author: Rita Coolidge

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

Author: Jackie Cooper

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

Author: Billy Corgan

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

Author: John Corigliano

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

Author: John Corigliano

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Author: Bernard Cornwell

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

Author: Caroline Corr

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

Author: David Coverdale

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.

Author: Ben Crenshaw

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

Author: Clarence Darrow

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Author: Charles Darwin

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.

Author: Marc Davis

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Author: Don DeLillo

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Author: Demosthenes

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

Author: Placido Domingo

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Author: John Donne

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

Author: William Douglas

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Author: Francis Drake

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

Author: Matt Drudge

It's that event that's the beginning of the avalanche of this play. The first loose rock.

Author: David Dukes

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Author: Robert Duvall

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Author: Alfred Eisenstaedt

In my beginning is my end.

Author: T. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Author: T. Eliot

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

Author: Havelock Ellis

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Author: Ralph Ellison

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.

Author: Julius Erving

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Author: Jamie Farr

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Author: Luc Ferrari

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

Author: Marsilio Ficino

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

Author: Dorothy Fields

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

Author: Carly Fiorina

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

Author: Martin Fischer

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

Author: C. Forester

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Author: Harry Fosdick

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Author: Jonathan Franzen

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

Author: Alberto Fujimori

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

Author: Maggie Gallagher

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Author: Indira Gandhi

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Author: Clifford Geertz

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

Author: Lou Gehrig

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

Author: Boutros Ghali

In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it.

Author: Robin Gibb

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Author: Edward Gibbon

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Author: Andre Gide

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.

Author: Jean-Luc Godard

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

Author: Natalie Goldberg

So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.

Author: Eydie Gorme

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

Author: Juan Goytisolo

Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

Author: Lou Gramm

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

Author: Phil Gramm

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

Author: Laurell Hamilton

Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.

Author: Lee Haney

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Author: M. Harding

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Author: Bret Harte

We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.

Author: Reed Hastings

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Author: Frank Herbert

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Author: Frank Herbert

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Author: Herodotus

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

Author: Kristin Hersh

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.

Author: Hesiod

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

Author: John Heywood

But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.

Author: Joel Hodgson

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

Author: Paul Hogan

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

Author: Anthony Holden

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Author: Oliver Holmes

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

Author: Horace

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Author: Alan Hovhaness

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

Author: Ellsworth Huntington

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

Author: Isabelle Huppert

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Author: Miguel Icaza

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

Author: Guillermo Infante

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

Author: Guillermo Infante

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Author: Muhammad Iqbal

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

Author: Jason Isaacs

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

Author: Jason Isaacs

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

Author: George Jackson

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

Author: LaToya Jackson

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

Author: C. James

At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.

Author: Jam Jay

I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.

Author: Peter Jennings

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

Author: Elton John

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.

Author: Kelly Jones

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

Author: William Joyce

I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

Author: Andrea Jung

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Author: Franz Kafka

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Author: Franz Kafka

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Author: Franz Kafka

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Author: Leon Kass

I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

Author: Casey Kasum

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

Author: Maynard Keenan

Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along.

Author: David Keene

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

Author: Sally Kellerman

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

Author: Rufus King

The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.

Author: Robert Kirkman

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.

Author: Rem Koolhaas

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Author: Jerry Kramer