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"...For I know not how it came, nor when it began; but crept, crept it has,..."

Full 'Samuel Richardson' Quote   Source: Samuel Richardson
"shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain...."

Full 'Mark Twain' Quote   Source: Mark Twain
"A good beginning makes a good end."

Full 'Louis L'amour' Quote   Source: Louis L'amour
"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than"

Full 'Herb Caen' Quote   Source: Herb Caen
"times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

Full 'John Burroughs' Quote   Source: John Burroughs
"times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

Full 'J Paul Getty' Quote   Source: J Paul Getty
"of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger."

Full 'Philip Sidney' Quote   Source: Philip Sidney
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."

Full 'Paul Cezanne' Quote   Source: Paul Cezanne
"lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and..."

Full 'Cameron Diaz' Quote   Source: Cameron Diaz
"phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and..."

Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote   Source: H. G. Wells
"After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that"

Full 'Austin O'malley' Quote   Source: Austin O'malley
"All bad precedents began as justifiable measures."

Full 'Julius Caesar' Quote   Source: Julius Caesar
"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."

Full 'Whistler' Quote   Source: Whistler
"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has..."

Full 'Maria Callas' Quote   Source: Maria Callas
"And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't..."

Full 'Veronica A Shoffstall' Quote   Source: Veronica A Shoffstall
"Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end."

Full 'George Moore' Quote   Source: George Moore
"which I found somewhat frustrating at the beginning of my career...they..."

Full 'Anne Geddes' Quote   Source: Anne Geddes
"Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these..."

Full 'Maxwell Maltz' Quote   Source: Maxwell Maltz
"its successful individuals since the beginning...."

Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote   Source: H. G. Wells
"the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge"

Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote   Source: Louis Aragon
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it"

Full 'Clare Booth Luce' Quote   Source: Clare Booth Luce
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working"

Full 'Henry Ford' Quote   Source: Henry Ford
"where friendship ends and passion does begin When she does not show you the..."

Full 'Suzanne Vega' Quote   Source: Suzanne Vega
"Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."

Full 'George Iles' Quote   Source: George Iles
"Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on"

Full 'Charlotte Perkins Gilman' Quote   Source: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within..."

Full 'Harriet Tubman' Quote   Source: Harriet Tubman
"time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the..."

Full 'Mother Teresa' Quote   Source: Mother Teresa
"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact,..."

Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Bowen
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."

Full 'Henry Ford' Quote   Source: Henry Ford
"sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom...."

Full 'Bertrand Russell' Quote   Source: Bertrand Russell
"either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."

Full 'Anna Jameson' Quote   Source: Anna Jameson
"soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with..."

Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote   Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude have roots that can be pulled"

Full 'George Eliot' Quote   Source: George Eliot
"From the beginning we have had an open taping policy that allows our fans..."

Full 'Dave Matthews' Quote   Source: Dave Matthews
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Full 'Joseph Joubert' Quote   Source: Joseph Joubert
"gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school..."

Full 'Ivan Pavlov' Quote   Source: Ivan Pavlov
"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."

Full 'Benjamin Franklin' Quote   Source: Benjamin Franklin
"Happiness begins where selfishness ends."

Full 'John Wooden' Quote   Source: John Wooden
"anti-abortion activists, it seems life begins at conception and ends at..."

Full 'Jane Fonda' Quote   Source: Jane Fonda
"has half the deed done who has made a beginning."

Full 'Horace' Quote   Source: Horace
"the prime condition of success: Having begun on one line, resolve to fight..."

Full 'Andrew Carnegie' Quote   Source: Andrew Carnegie
"there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as..."

Full 'John Osborne' Quote   Source: John Osborne
"Heretics have been hateful from the beginning of recorded time; they have..."

Full 'Billings Learned Hand' Quote   Source: Billings Learned Hand
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try..."

Full 'Anne Lamott' Quote   Source: Anne Lamott
"on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather..."

Full 'Cynthia Heimel' Quote   Source: Cynthia Heimel
"on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather..."

Full 'Margaret Halsey' Quote   Source: Margaret Halsey
"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I'd do it with..."

Full 'Fidel Castro' Quote   Source: Fidel Castro
"I believe everything begins with a positive idea... The mind is your most"

Full 'Ron Jaworski' Quote   Source: Ron Jaworski
"difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell..."

Full 'Barbara Cartland' Quote   Source: Barbara Cartland
"I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I..."

Full 'Charles Darwin' Quote   Source: Charles Darwin
"I opposed this war from the beginning, and I would sign the bill to end it"

Full 'Barack Obama' Quote   Source: Barack Obama
"years from now. I mean, I'm not at the beginning of my career. I'm on a..."

Full 'Gwen Stefani' Quote   Source: Gwen Stefani
"I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force..."

Full 'Steve Mcqueen' Quote   Source: Steve Mcqueen
"I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of..."

Full 'Louise Erdrich' Quote   Source: Louise Erdrich
"think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."

Full 'Henry James' Quote   Source: Henry James
"should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the..."

Full 'Fidel Castro' Quote   Source: Fidel Castro
"I think we have just begun to strike a nerve in America, the nerve that..."

Full 'Martha Stewart' Quote   Source: Martha Stewart
"rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life..."

Full 'Gilda Radner' Quote   Source: Gilda Radner
"fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander."

Full 'Grace Paley' Quote   Source: Grace Paley
"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one..."

Full 'Anne Tyler' Quote   Source: Anne Tyler
"life properly. My juices didn't really begin flowing until I turned 40...."

Full 'Shirley Maclaine' Quote   Source: Shirley Maclaine
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he..."

Full 'Francis Bacon' Quote   Source: Francis Bacon
"America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself."

Full 'William Safire' Quote   Source: William Safire
"absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin...."

Full 'Ivan Turgenev' Quote   Source: Ivan Turgenev
"we're responsible for our decisions, it begins with moms and dads being..."

Full 'George W Bush' Quote   Source: George W Bush
"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."

Full 'David Viscott' Quote   Source: David Viscott
"accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit."

Full 'Oprah Winfrey' Quote   Source: Oprah Winfrey
"for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National...."

Full 'George Will' Quote   Source: George Will
"II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one..."

Full 'Anne Tyler' Quote   Source: Anne Tyler
"ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves...."

Full 'Thomas Carlyle' Quote   Source: Thomas Carlyle
"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."

Full 'Theodore Roethke' Quote   Source: Theodore Roethke
"In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is..."

Full 'Henri Matisse' Quote   Source: Henri Matisse
"In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass blade's no easier to"

Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote   Source: James Russell Lowell
"In dreams begin responsibilities"

Full 'Delmore Schwartz' Quote   Source: Delmore Schwartz
"In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion,..."

Full 'Anna Jameson' Quote   Source: Anna Jameson
"In my beginning is my end."

Full 'T S Eliot' Quote   Source: T S Eliot
"In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and..."

Full 'Dave Thomas' Quote   Source: Dave Thomas
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And..."

Full 'Ellen Degeneres' Quote   Source: Ellen Degeneres
"In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You..."

Full 'Henri Matisse' Quote   Source: Henri Matisse
"In the beginning, the universe was cre ated. This made a lot of people very..."

Full 'Douglas Adams' Quote   Source: Douglas Adams
"always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end)..."

Full 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky' Quote   Source: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and"

Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Bowen
"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and..."

Full 'Diane Ackerman' Quote   Source: Diane Ackerman
"It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how..."

Full 'Peter Nivio Zarlenga' Quote   Source: Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"tell where the law stops and justice begins."

Full 'Bugs Baer' Quote   Source: Bugs Baer
"It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother...."

Full 'Jay Leno' Quote   Source: Jay Leno
"is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as"

Full 'Thomas Huxley' Quote   Source: Thomas Huxley
"forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward...."

Full 'Patrick Stewart' Quote   Source: Patrick Stewart
"was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem..."

Full 'George Byron' Quote   Source: George Byron
"think I loved them too much from the very beginning. I found out girls need..."

Full 'Justin Timberlake' Quote   Source: Justin Timberlake
"overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed...."

Full 'Gloria Naylor' Quote   Source: Gloria Naylor
"intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves..."

Full 'Edward Hoagland' Quote   Source: Edward Hoagland
"knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the..."

Full 'Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' Quote   Source: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"inspiration is not discernible at the beginning...."

Full 'Igor Stravinsky' Quote   Source: Igor Stravinsky
"Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve..."

Full 'Heywood Broun' Quote   Source: Heywood Broun
"remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."

Full 'Charles Schultz' Quote   Source: Charles Schultz
"Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be..."

Full 'J Edgar Hoover' Quote   Source: J Edgar Hoover
"Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth-- to see it like it is,..."

Full 'Richard Nixon' Quote   Source: Richard Nixon
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

Full 'George Washington' Quote   Source: George Washington
"ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single..."

Full 'Margaret Anderson' Quote   Source: Margaret Anderson
"ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have..."

Full 'Thomas Kempis' Quote   Source: Thomas Kempis
"like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,..."

Full 'Bruce Lee' Quote   Source: Bruce Lee
"Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning."

Full 'Indira Gandhi' Quote   Source: Indira Gandhi
"usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

Full 'Walter Savage Landor' Quote   Source: Walter Savage Landor
"are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause."

Full 'Harry Vardon' Quote   Source: Harry Vardon
"which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes...."

Full 'Ronald Reagan' Quote   Source: Ronald Reagan
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

Full 'Henry David Thoreau' Quote   Source: Henry David Thoreau
"Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner..."

Full 'Laura Ingalls Wilder' Quote   Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder
"enemies is secret resentment. Freedom begins as we become conscious of it."

Full 'Vernon Howard' Quote   Source: Vernon Howard
"to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay..."

Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Bowen
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Full 'Martin Luther King' Quote   Source: Martin Luther King
"obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning...."

Full 'Ellen Goodman' Quote   Source: Ellen Goodman
"Prayer begins where human capacity ends."

Full 'Marian Anderson' Quote   Source: Marian Anderson
"when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see..."

Full 'Harper Lee' Quote   Source: Harper Lee
"Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal,..."

Full 'Mario Lemieux' Quote   Source: Mario Lemieux
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Full 'Demosthenes' Quote   Source: Demosthenes
"an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is..."

Full 'Florence Nightingale' Quote   Source: Florence Nightingale
"are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."

Full 'Henry Vandyke' Quote   Source: Henry Vandyke
"nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it."

Full 'August Wilson' Quote   Source: August Wilson
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but"

Full 'Eric Hoffer' Quote   Source: Eric Hoffer
"always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that..."

Full 'Hillary Rodham Clinton' Quote   Source: Hillary Rodham Clinton
"that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't..."

Full 'Pablo Casals' Quote   Source: Pablo Casals
"The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny."

Full 'Edward Abbey' Quote   Source: Edward Abbey
"love as long as I live.. This is the new beginning of another journey...."

Full 'Gul shah Begum Fawzia' Quote   Source: Gul shah Begum Fawzia
"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Full 'Mina Thomas Antrim' Quote   Source: Mina Thomas Antrim
"is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness...."

Full 'Eric Hoffer' Quote   Source: Eric Hoffer
"when they say, "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,..."

Full 'Jean Rhys' Quote   Source: Jean Rhys
"the song says, "We've only just begun."..."

Full 'Bruce Lee' Quote   Source: Bruce Lee
"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman."

Full 'Willa Cather' Quote   Source: Willa Cather
"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the"

Full 'Georg Hegel' Quote   Source: Georg Hegel
"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the"

Full 'Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel' Quote   Source: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"living. God gives you all in all a new beginning, a new life.."

Full 'Gul shah Begum Fawzia' Quote   Source: Gul shah Begum Fawzia
"has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without."

Full 'Ernest Hemingway' Quote   Source: Ernest Hemingway
"exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at..."

Full 'Marcus Terentius Varro' Quote   Source: Marcus Terentius Varro
"The past is but the past of a beginning."

Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote   Source: H. G. Wells
"on and on, down from the door where it began."

Full 'Jrr Tolkien' Quote   Source: Jrr Tolkien
"rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins."

Full 'Soren Kierkegaard' Quote   Source: Soren Kierkegaard
"There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little..."

Full 'E. B. White' Quote   Source: E. B. White
"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to..."

Full 'Ellen Goodman' Quote   Source: Ellen Goodman
"To begin, begin."

Full 'Peter Nivio Zarlenga' Quote   Source: Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise."

Full 'Homer' Quote   Source: Homer
"To retire is to begin to die."

Full 'Pablo Casals' Quote   Source: Pablo Casals
"Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality."

Full 'Clarence Day' Quote   Source: Clarence Day
"the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only..."

Full 'George Sand' Quote   Source: George Sand
"We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with ies and half our lives we live"

Full 'Isadora Duncan' Quote   Source: Isadora Duncan
"ocean of Consciousness or Spirit, and we begin to know ourselves...."

Full 'Thom Thompson' Quote   Source: Thom Thompson
"We can't begin to know it: How much we really care. I hear your voice..."

Full 'Pat Benatar' Quote   Source: Pat Benatar
"where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it..."

Full 'R D Laing' Quote   Source: R D Laing
"all our lives . . . Censorship for us begins at the color line...."

Full 'Langston Hughes' Quote   Source: Langston Hughes
"We will not know unless we begin."

Full 'Howard Zinn' Quote   Source: Howard Zinn
"of what we've accomplished; we've just begun...."

Full 'Sam Walton' Quote   Source: Sam Walton
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

Full 'Benjamin Franklin' Quote   Source: Benjamin Franklin
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power"

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"bigger than a circustent and everything began...."

Full 'E E Cummings' Quote   Source: E E Cummings
"Only in the last couple of years have I begun to think I could sing....."

Full 'Stevie Nicks' Quote   Source: Stevie Nicks
"that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it."

Full 'Clarence Darrow' Quote   Source: Clarence Darrow
"conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a..."

Full 'Betty Friedan' Quote   Source: Betty Friedan
"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the..."

Full 'Daniel Webster' Quote   Source: Daniel Webster
"Blvd, so when we got together in the beginning it was a Tiffany Affair. It..."

Full 'Tiffany Affair' Quote   Source: Tiffany Affair
"When words leave off, music begins."

Full 'Heinrich Heine' Quote   Source: Heinrich Heine
"you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."

Full 'Eleanor Roosevelt' Quote   Source: Eleanor Roosevelt
"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he..."

Full 'Washington Irving' Quote   Source: Washington Irving
"exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere."

Full 'Peter Robert Fleming' Quote   Source: Peter Robert Fleming
"Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody"

Full 'Dianne Feinstein' Quote   Source: Dianne Feinstein
"feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."

Full 'Socrates' Quote   Source: Socrates
"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."

Full 'David Viscott' Quote   Source: David Viscott