Begins Quotes

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.