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Here everybody has a neighbor, Everybody has a friend. Everybody has a reason to begin again. (Bruce Springsteen)
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public. View quote
Alain de Botton
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn. View quote
William James
It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again. View quote
Parmenides
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence. View quote
William Hazlitt
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
From here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. View quote
Mahmoud Abbas
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort. (John Forbes Nash)
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws. View quote
George Soros
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war. View quote
François Rabelais
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs. Walden. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. View quote
George Eliot
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one. View quote
Sylvia Plath
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory. View quote
Yukio Mishima
You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand Lucid in order, solid and at hand; Spend not your words on trifles but condense; Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense; Press to close with vigor, once begun, And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done. (Joseph Story)
Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the domination of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the partition of all the territories of the globe among the great capitalist powers has been completed. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile. View quote
Virgil
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
In a whisper he began begging for-and, as the sun set, received-the concession people always beg for: a little more time. View quote
Zadie Smith