Beginning Quotes - page 9

We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning. View quote
George R. R. Martin
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. View quote
Adam Ferguson
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure. View quote
Ramakrishna
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. View quote
Fred Hoyle
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching. View quote
Elie Wiesel
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. View quote
Elie Wiesel
We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings. View quote
Clement of Alexandria
There are problems in these times, but none of them are mine I'm beginning to see the light. View quote
Lou Reed
Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning... View quote
Ian McEwan
To begin at the beginning. View quote
Dylan Thomas
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
We find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end. View quote
James Hutton
Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless. (Emil Cioran)
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. View quote
Quintilian
The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop. View quote
Kristin Kreuk