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We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently. (James Hillman)
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future. View quote
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. View quote
Elihu Root
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. View quote
Groucho Marx
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. View quote
James Thurber
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. View quote
William James
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. View quote
Kofi Annan
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. View quote
William Hazlitt
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop. (Paulo Coelho)
I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me I was a father. View quote
Nat King Cole
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we do not succeed with political union...then the historic decline of Europe which began with the First World War will resume. View quote
Jacques Delors
Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears... View quote
Jack Kerouac
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. View quote
Paulo Freire
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barbers shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. View quote
Stephen Hawking
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. View quote
Norbert Wiener
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. (L. Neil Smith)
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. View quote
Harper Lee
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. View quote
Epictetus
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley