We Begin Quotes
305 quotes by 243 authors
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Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us…
— Mortimer Adler
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Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its…
— Lurlene McDaniel
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We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on…
— John Gardner
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The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from…
— Rick Moody
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We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our…
— Maggie O'Farrell
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born…
— Anne Lamott
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The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
— Paulo Coelho
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we…
— Cyril Connolly
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In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the…
— Dean Koontz
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we…
— Henry David Thoreau
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As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea…
— David Platt
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Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that…
— Alison Croggon
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("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole…
— Tim O'Brien
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Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit!…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm,…
— Terry Goodkind
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We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent…
— George Eliot
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What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do…
— Thomas Harris
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What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us…
— Charles Wright
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