Beginnings And Endings Quotes (page 11)

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• end
• folly
• ends

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Beverly Sills

• today
• decision
• life

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. Jay Leno

• liars
• end
• appearance

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. William Shenstone

• star
• travel
• people

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending. Compay Segundo

• love
• alone
• end

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Jean de la Bruyere

• women
• small
• end

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Elizabeth Bowen

• nature
• mountain
• end

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. John Ruskin

• understanding
• knowledge
• end

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Immanuel Kant

• great
• end
• greatness

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end. Alan Rickman

• greatness
• affection
• end

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. Jacques Barzun

• life
• end
• drama

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. Minna Antrim

• thinking
• end
• sometimes

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on. Clay Aiken

• god
• mercy
• spring

And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength." As the love of God is the beginning of all our mercies, so love to God should be the end and effect of them all. As the stream leads us to the spring, so all the gifts of God must lead us to the giver of them. Richard Steele

• king
• end
• gravely

Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop. Lewis Carroll

• mother
• home
• thoughts

And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to... Herman Hesse