Begun Quotes

706 Begun quotes by 574 unique authors

We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run? — Bayard Taylor
The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per… — Burton Silverman
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital… — Vladimir Lenin
Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff… — Vladimir Lenin
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing… — Alberto Manguel
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as… — C.S. Lewis
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy… — Gore Vidal
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms… — Michel Foucault
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. — Benjamin Franklin
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be… — Evelyn Glennie
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition,… — Mitch Daniels
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed… — Jacques Derrida
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. — John Dewey
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people,… — Rita Dove
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not… — Rita Dove
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. — Jonathan Edwards
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse… — Epictetus
Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the… — Joshua Foer
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. — Seamus Heaney
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by… — Mark Helprin
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss… — Robert Herrick
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black… — Bell Hooks
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just… — James Weldon Johnson
I have not yet begun to fight! — John Paul Jones

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