Beginning Quotes (page 24)

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• great
• greatness
• greats

But what is great can only begin great. Martin Heidegger

• experience
• life
• good

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all. Nancy Mitford

• powerful
• universe
• dream

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement. William Joyce

• love
• may
• possessiveness

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection. F. H. Bradley

• book
• booked
• begining

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. Samuel Johnson

• death
• end
• endings

Death isn't the end, it's the beginning. Jennifer Love Hewitt

• butterfly
• forever
• dream

It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out. Ann Patchett

• end
• work
• grace

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. Katherine Anne Porter

• fall
• help
• helpful

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall Stevie Wonder

• determination
• wellness
• humanity

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. Albert Einstein

• evening
• lifetime
• thy

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. John F. Kennedy

• power
• genius
• powerful

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• death
• thinking
• think

I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death. Emile M. Cioran

• reality
• end
• luminous

Reality is the beginning not the end, Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega, Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals. Wallace Stevens

• thinking
• may
• thinks

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles Robert M. Pirsig