Starts Quotes

1916 Starts quotes by 1411 unique authors

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon. — Matsuo Basho
War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and… — Patrick Ness
And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you… — Haruki Murakami
There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and… — Banana Yoshimoto
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us,… — Lewis Black
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's… — Steve Toltz
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with… — Yann Martel
No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to… — Carl von Clausewitz
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you. — Sarah Dessen
But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable… — Kim Harrison
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. — Ian Mcewan
My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. — Michael Chabon
She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a… — Gregory Maguire
If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a… — Susane Colasanti
When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal? — Cormac McCarthy
So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as… — Ivan Turgenev
Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is… — Martin Heidegger
Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it?… — Francesca Lia Block
The beginning of it starts at the end — Tom Waits
We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly… — L.A. Meyer
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness,… — T.H. White
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when… — Douglas Adams
Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart… — Janette Rallison
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He… — Anne Lamott

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