Begun Quotes

706 Begun quotes by 574 unique authors

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live. — Erich Fromm
Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute… — June Jordan
Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so… — Sara Teasdale
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing… — Mark Zandi
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they… — Emile M. Cioran
What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? — William Butler Yeats
It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through. — Ellen Goodman
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. — Primo Levi
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun. — Bruce Lee
Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not… — James Agee
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. — Johanna Lindsey
Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and… — Benjamin Hoff
I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and… — Tamora Pierce
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate… — Johannes Stark
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious. — Ron Suskind
If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're… — Thom Yorke
It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't… — Elizabeth Hardwick
He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine… — Maximus the Confessor
Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck… — Roger Michell
That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the… — Dee Dee Myers
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely… — Paul Davies
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live. — Paul Brunton
My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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