Beginning Quotes

4628 Beginning quotes by 3037 unique authors

For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities. — William Carlos Williams
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of… — Milan Kundera
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality. — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble? — Philip Roth
The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into… — Ann Patchett
I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence… — Brenda Ueland
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business… — Brenda Ueland
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley
Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense… — Anita Shreve
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only… — Milan Kundera
I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust… — Samuel Beckett
Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate… — George Orwell
pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough… — Saul Williams
Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet… — Nicole Krauss
To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end. — Albert Camus
You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because… — Kurt Vonnegut
En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning. — Philippa Gregory
In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared.… — Nicole Krauss
He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this… — Gary Paulsen

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