Beginning Quotes

4628 Beginning quotes by 3037 unique authors

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not… — Franz Kafka
Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only… — Anita Shreve
Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love,” the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. “But I don’t think… — Lisa Kleypas
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay… — Gao Xingjian
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or… — Nicole Krauss
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured… — Evelyn Underhill
And I was even beginning to think home might be with you. — Ben Sherwood
We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into… — Eric Kripke
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery. — Robert Anton Wilson
I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown… — W. Somerset Maugham
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. — Charles Dickens
I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you… — Hillary Jordan
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick… — Margaret Atwood
The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It… — Carl Jung
and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in… — Franz Kafka
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to… — Richard Peck
Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally,… — Rajneesh
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle
You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak." "I'll kick anyone who does." "I think you… — Ellen Schreiber
Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time. — Terry Goodkind
A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce… — Kurt Vonnegut
Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief… — John Berendt
There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man… — Alistair Begg
Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask,… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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