Begun Quotes
706 Begun quotes by 574 unique authors
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The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.
— Jasper Fforde
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I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated…
— Suzanne Collins
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In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the…
— Julian Barnes
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A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
— Bram Stoker
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I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?
— Rachel Joyce
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Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that…
— Carl Jung
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Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with…
— Kristin Hannah
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Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity.…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there. I've begun to…
— Rachel Joyce
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They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more…
— Kami Garcia
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I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with…
— Isak Dinesen
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I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of…
— Marilyn Manson
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Do you ever feel like 'nothing' has happened to you? Like you know you have a destiny, but all you've seen of life so far…
— Lauren Kate
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When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When…
— A A Milne
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Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as…
— Jim Butcher
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Meanwhile, Will had begun cutting his toast into strips and was making rude pictographs out of them. Oh, that looks rather like a ...- ,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift…
— Tan Twan Eng
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A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing -…
— Lewis Carroll
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Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were…
— Lewis Carroll
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...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we…
— Marcel Proust
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It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here.…
— Margaret Atwood
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my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic…
— William Styron
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.
— Alfred Bester
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