Begin Quotes
4334 Begin quotes by 2606 unique authors
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A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters,…
— Lewis Carroll
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
— Thomas Carlyle
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To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.
— John Milton
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Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
— Joseph Campbell
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I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes…
— Henry Moore
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And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail…
— Heinrich Heine
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True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet…
— Henri Matisse
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If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh,…
— Edgar Degas
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One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come…
— William Carlos Williams
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I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.
— Quentin Bell
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
— Wendell Berry
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September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn…
— Eleanor Perenyi
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I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
— John Evelyn
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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin...
— Salman Rushdie
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If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through…
— Salman Rushdie
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Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.
— Lewis Thomas
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I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense…
— David Hockney
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To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description…
— Vimala Thakar
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I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing…
— Theodore Roethke
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I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get…
— Willem de Kooning
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