Begins Quotes

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.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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.

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.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

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.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.