Beginning Quotes - page 96

All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life. (Edmund Cooper)
Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Things are always at their best in their beginning. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I fear that the migratory crisis signals the beginning of the end of women's rights. View quote
Marine Le Pen
This was a good beginning. All the outmoded rules of the hospital were broken. View quote
Ba Jin
The age is off its hinges. Everything, beginning with time, seems out of kilter, unjust, dis-adjusted. The world is going very badly, it wears as it grows. View quote
Jacques Derrida
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second. View quote
Alanis Morissette
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity. View quote
Michelle Obama
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning. View quote
George Eliot
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you. View quote
George Eliot
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud. (George Eliot)
My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me. View quote
Tina Turner
The doctor says there are such boys springing up amongst us-boys of a sort unknown in the last generation-the outcome of new views of life. They seem to see all its terrors before they are old enough to have staying power to resist them. He says it is the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live. View quote
Thomas Hardy
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life. View quote
Stanley Hauerwas
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. View quote
Thor Heyerdahl
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me. View quote
Lars von Trier
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring. View quote
Truman Capote
Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship's more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments. View quote
Truman Capote
The work of a generation is beginning here. View quote
Edward Snowden
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. View quote
Camille Pissarro
The world is mediocre. About that there is no mistake. Well then, has the world been mediocre since time immemorial? No. In the beginning, the world was chaos, and chaos is not mediocre. The mediocratization began when people separated the means of production from daily life. (Haruki Murakami)
There's nothing worse than waking up in total darkness. It's like having to go back and live life all over from the beginning. When I first opened my eyes, iy esd sd ig I ertr living someone' else's life. After an extremely long time, this began to match up with my own life. A curious overslap this, my own life as some else's. It was improbabblr that such a person as myself could even be living. View quote
Haruki Murakami
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I let my temper get the best of me and I go off, for no reason, Tis is the beginning of kicking in yo door season. View quote
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