Best Begun Lines
706 Begun quotes by 574 unique authors
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Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.
— Italo Calvino
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For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it…
— John Calvin
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It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun…
— Epictetus
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no…
— Ayn Rand
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished…
— Bob Schaffer
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When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we…
— Pema Chodron
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For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
— Thomas Merton
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As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal…
— Spencer Bachus
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Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.
— Doc Holliday
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This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a…
— Chris Hedges
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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get…
— Christopher Dawson
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When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things,
— Anne Bradstreet
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Better never begin; once begun, better finish.
— Dan Millman
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When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every…
— H. L. Mencken
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Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its…
— Lee Smolin
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment…
— E. O. Wilson
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Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
— Cardinal Richelieu
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I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into…
— Alan Watts
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Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this…
— Maria Montessori
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Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of…
— Yanni
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Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.
— Charles Bass
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