300 Quotes on Beginning

• Embrace messy beginnings, for they hold the seeds of beautiful growth.

  Author: Hannah White

• From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

• Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

  Author: Peter Zarlenga

• I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

  Author: Jay Z

• A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

  Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

• All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

  Author: Marguerite Young

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

  Author: Kenko Yoshida

• Only beginning to present itself over the horizon.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  Author: A. Yehoshua

• Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• The beginning is always today.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

  Author: Kevin Williamson

• The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

  Author: Emma Willard

• From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

  Author: Thornton Wilder

• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

  Author: Edward Whymper

• Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

  Author: Theodore White

• We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

  Author: Barry White

• As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

  Author: Joss Whedon

• We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

  Author: Shane West

• I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

  Author: Shane West

• You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

  Author: H. Wells

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  Author: H. Wells

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  Author: H. Wells

• You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  Author: Len Wein

• I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

  Author: Gene Ween

• In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.

  Author: Fred Ward

• Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

  Author: Rob Walton

• Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning.

  Author: John Walters

• The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

  Author: Bill Walsh

• It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

  Author: Murray Walker

• I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.

  Author: Jon Voight

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  Author: A. Vogt

• It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

  Author: Harry Vardon

• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  Author: Jack Vance

• At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

  Author: Midge Ure

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.

  Author: Jeff Tweedy

• The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.

  Author: Mark Twain

• I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

  Author: Tina Turner

• I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

  Author: Ike Turner

• Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  Author: Rachel True

• I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

  Author: Rose Tremain

• So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

  Author: Dave Thomas

• Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

  Author: Mother Teresa

• Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

  Author: Terence

• I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

  Author: Wislawa Szymborska

• In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

  Author: Charles Sumner

• Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

  Author: Anne Sullivan

• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

  Author: Anne Sullivan

• My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

  Author: Theodore Sturgeon

• Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• The future is always beginning now.

  Author: Mark Strand

• I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

  Author: George Stevens

• Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

  Author: Mattie Stepanek

• If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

  Author: Ben Stein

• In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

  Author: Roger Staubach

• Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

  Author: Jean Stapleton

• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  Author: Madame Stael

• People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

  Author: Art Spiegelman

• And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

• At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

  Author: Joanna Southcott

• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  Author: David Soul

• A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.

  Author: Mark Smith

• Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

  Author: Jimmy Smith

• Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

  Author: Barbara Smith

• From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

  Author: Nina Simone

• My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

  Author: Russell Simmons

• A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

  Author: Philip Sidney

• In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

  Author: Joe Shuster

• I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

  Author: Joe Shuster

• He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

  Author: Joe Shuster

• After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

  Author: Elisabeth Shue

• My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Author: William Sherman

• It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

  Author: Allan Sherman

• I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

  Author: Jules Shear

• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

  Author: George Shaw

• A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

  Author: Eda Shan

• What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

  Author: Seneca

• I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

  Author: Compay Segundo

• Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

  Author: Compay Segundo

• I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.

  Author: Sean Scott

• I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• In my end is my beginning.

  Author: Mary Scots

• Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Winning starts with beginning.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

  Author: Marge Schott

• I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• 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.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

  Author: Boz Scaggs

• I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

  Author: Nathalie Sarraute

• The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

  Author: Sallust

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  Author: Walter Salles

• The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

  Author: Walter Salles

• While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

  Author: John Ruskin

• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

  Author: Rudy Rucker

• Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

  Author: Theodore Rubin

• You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

  Author: Arundhati Roy

• We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

  Author: Stuart Rothenberg

• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

  Author: Richard Roeper

• At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

  Author: Norman Rockwell

• A beginning is the end of something, always.

  Author: Spider Robinson

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Author: Rainer Rilke

• Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

  Author: Little Richard

• The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

  Author: Anne Rice

• I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

  Author: Anne Rice

• I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

  Author: Anne Rice

• I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

  Author: Albert Reynolds

• I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

  Author: Karel Reisz

• They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.

  Author: Della Reese

• I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

  Author: Sumner Redstone

• That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

  Author: Eric Raymond

• Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

  Author: Eric Raymond

• I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'

  Author: Mary Rajskub

• When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Author: Gilda Radner

• Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

  Author: Marcus Quintilian

• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  Author: Salvatore Quasimodo

• We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

  Author: George Putnam

• I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

  Author: Alain Prost

• If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

  Author: Richard Price

• Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

  Author: Terry Pratchett

• Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.

  Author: Pete Pont

• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

  Author: Jackson Pollock

• Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

  Author: John Polkinghorne

• The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  Author: John Polanyi

• I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

  Author: John Poindexter

• The beginning is the most important part of the work.

  Author: Plato

• Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

  Author: Plato

• It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?

  Author: Ruth Pitter

• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  Author: Camille Pissarro

• At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

  Author: Paul Pierce

• In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

  Author: Jean Piaget

• Death is the beginning of something.

  Author: Edith Piaf

• Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

  Author: Eckhard Pfeiffer

• At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

  Author: Li Peng

• Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.

  Author: Robert Patterson

• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  Author: Rafael Palmeiro

• We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

  Author: Peter O'Toole

• I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

  Author: Patton Oswalt

• From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

  Author: Beth Orton

• This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

  Author: Origen

• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  Author: Carl Orff

• We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

  Author: Jerry Only

• Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

  Author: Sharon Olds

• In the beginning it was all black and white.

  Author: Maureen O'Hara

• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

  Author: Barack Obama

• I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

  Author: Andre Norton

• To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

  Author: George Norris

• As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

  Author: Kenneth Noland

• I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

  Author: Yannick Noah

• Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

• The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year.

  Author: Lennart Nilsson

• So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  Author: Florence Nightingale

• The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

  Author: Nicholas Negroponte

• I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

  Author: Graham Nash

• The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

  Author: V. Naipaul

• Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.

  Author: Ellen Muth

• The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.

  Author: Dick Morris

• I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such.

  Author: Erin Moran

• I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

  Author: Gordon Moore

• Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

  Author: George Moore

• I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.

  Author: Mario Monti

• Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

  Author: Robert Mondavi

• From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.

  Author: Issey Miyake

• We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

  Author: Lakshmi Mittal

• The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

  Author: Joni Mitchell

• Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

  Author: Joan Miro

• Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

  Author: Giovanni Mirandola

• My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.

  Author: Dannii Minogue

• In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

  Author: Henry Miller

• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

  Author: Menander

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

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

  Author: David McCullough

• I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.

  Author: Scott McClellan

• Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

  Author: Linda McCartney

• That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

  Author: Anne McCaffrey

• From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.

  Author: Brian May

• Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

  Author: Gene Mauch

• In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

  Author: Henri Matisse

• As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?

  Author: Kurt Masur

• Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

  Author: Kurt Masur

• I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

  Author: Marcello Mastroianni

• My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

  Author: Rudolph Marcus

• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

  Author: Barry Mann

• I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

  Author: Joseph Mankiewicz

• Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.

  Author: Benoit Mandelbrot

• The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

  Author: Joe Manchin III

• I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

  Author: John Major

• Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

  Author: Mary MacLane

• You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

  Author: Joanna Lumley

• The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

  Author: George Lucas

• One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  Author: Francis Lowell

• I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

  Author: Chris Lowe

• I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

  Author: Alex Lowe

• At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

  Author: Adolf Loos

• They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?

  Author: Clifford Longley

• Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

  Author: Kenny Loggins

• The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.

  Author: David Lloyd

• A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't.

  Author: Alex Linz

• Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

  Author: Joseph Lightfoot

• This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

  Author: Joseph Lightfoot

• I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

  Author: Monica Lewinsky

• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

  Author: Barry Levinson

• I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.

  Author: Jonathan Lethem

• When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.

  Author: Richard Lester

• I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end.

  Author: Sugar Leonard

• Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

  Author: Mario Lemieux

• It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.

  Author: Gottfried Leibniz

• The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

  Author: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

• I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

  Author: Gyorgy Legeti

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  Author: Tanith Lee

• I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

  Author: Spike Lee

• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Author: Bruce Lee

• It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.

  Author: Alvin Lee

• I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.

  Author: Norman Lear

• From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

  Author: Ernest Lawrence

• Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

  Author: Isidore Lautreamont

• To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

  Author: Robert Laughlin

• If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

  Author: Walter Lang

• In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

  Author: Walter Lang

• Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

  Author: Walter Lang

• A good beginning makes a good end.

  Author: Louis L'Amour

• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

  Author: Louis L'Amour

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