Beginning Quotes
4628 quotes by 3037 authors
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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…
— Francis Cabot Lowell
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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
— Saint Augustine
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Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much…
— David Hilbert
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I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the…
— Lucian Freud
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You've got to stay ready, especially around here. That's what we preach, you'll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the…
— Tim Duncan
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Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a…
— Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to…
— Robert E. Lee
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We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself…
— Richard Bach
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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.
— T.H. White
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Knowledge has a beginning but no end.
— Geeta Iyengar
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I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order…
— Daniel Dennett
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The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives
— Origen
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to…
— Origen
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The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy,
— Carl Menger
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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…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately,…
— Virginia Satir
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