Begun Quotes

706 Begun quotes by 574 unique authors

Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end — Baltasar Gracian
Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have… — Milan Kundera
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen — Rene Descartes
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum… — Julio Cortazar
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature… — Patrick White
Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face. — J. G. Ballard
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first… — Erich Maria Remarque
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension,… — Alfred Bester
So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of… — Janet Fitch
When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the… — Douglas Coupland
She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?" Why not?" Sure." His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point,… — Barbara Kingsolver
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his… — Wendell Berry
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always… — Booker T. Washington
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it. — William Shakespeare
I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others,… — Italo Calvino
When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights… — Frank Delaney
Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice. He knows I know that. I know… — Ann Brashares
We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.… — Margaret Atwood
I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept… — Sarah Dessen
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly,… — Jane Austen
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on… — J M Coetzee
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain… — Bill Bryson

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