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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. (Lukas Foss)
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. View quote
Margaret Halsey
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. View quote
Michael Bergin
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards. View quote
Pat Riley
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. View quote
Patrick Stewart
The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. View quote
Robin Trower
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. View quote
Roland Joffe
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. View quote
Russell Banks
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it. View quote
Tea Leoni
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy. View quote
Terence Stamp
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. (Zhang Ziyi)
It was a particularly good evening to begin a book. View quote
Tove Jansson
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent. View quote
Mikhail Tal
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. View quote
José Martí
Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one - or take equivalent action, I suppose. View quote
Tom Clancy
For Beatrice--When we met, my life began. Soon afterward, yours ended. View quote
Daniel Handler
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin. View quote
Gordon Brown
The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you. View quote
Dwayne Johnson
It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. View quote
Valerie Solanas
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie. (Antonin Scalia)
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. View quote
Fidel Castro
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason. View quote
Fidel Castro
Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is. View quote
David Guterson
I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began. View quote
Martha Gellhorn