Beginning Quotes

4628 Beginning quotes by 3037 unique authors

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. — Laurie Halse Anderson
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange… — Jeanette Winterson
Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your… — James Clavell
Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I… — Meg Cabot
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on… — Mark Helprin
The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza… — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if… — Kevin Brooks
A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment… — Anita Shreve
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way… — Arundhati Roy
I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub… — Alice Sebold
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide… — Nick Hornby
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And… — Agatha Christie
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle… — Henri Nouwen
as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere,… — Hermann Hesse
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem,… — Nick Hornby
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. — C.S. Lewis
He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you. — Alice Sebold
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent… — Maggie Stiefvater
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the… — Kate Jacobs
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. — Fred Rogers
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life… — Albert Camus
Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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