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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. (Gloria Steinem)
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. View quote
James Baldwin
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. View quote
Stanisław Leszczyński
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. View quote
Spike Milligan
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. View quote
Winston Churchill
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. View quote
Jean Cocteau
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. (Jean Kerr)
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. View quote
Horace Mann
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. View quote
Thomas Paine
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. View quote
Petrarch
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. View quote
George Carlin
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. View quote
Tori Amos
The only joy in the world is to begin. View quote
Cesare Pavese
All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. (Gloria Steinem)
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth. View quote
Barbara Cartland
One has to look out for engineers-they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. View quote
Marcel Pagnol
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. View quote
Samuel Richardson