Begun Quotes
706 Begun quotes by 574 unique authors
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is…
— A J P Taylor
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
— Alice Hoffman
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A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it…
— Juan Manuel Santos
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One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.
— Fiona Shaw
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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
— Eric Allin Cornell
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Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,' which…
— Milton Mayer
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No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.
— J. Edwin Orr
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It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as if my childhood…
— Kuki Gallmann
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Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe…
— Kelly Miller
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
— Cesare Pavese
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Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took…
— Edgar Guest
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The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know…
— Robert Montgomery
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Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a…
— Marianne Fredriksson
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No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit…
— Angela of Foligno
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The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;…
— Berton Braley
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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its…
— George Saintsbury
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It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field,…
— Alice Paul
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If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.
— Ajahn Chah
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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun…
— Mary McCarthy
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I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or…
— Hugo Grotius
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Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they…
— Unknown Author
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You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how…
— Josemaria Escriva
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If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
— John Cage
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I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training…
— Sadie Frost
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