Quotes with beginning

Quotes 121 till 140 of 256.

  • Abraham Lincoln It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bille August It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Raymond Williams It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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  • Bob Woodward It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Carole Bouquet It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it had a lot to do with the way you look. And then you have to have the time to add pieces of the jigsaw.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Anne Sullivan Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Ben Stein Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Theodore I. Rubin Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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  • George Santayana Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Oscar Wilde Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jim Rohn Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • John Ruskin Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bhagat Singh Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Mother Teresa Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Virginia Woolf Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
    Artist of Life
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Mme de Stael Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Terence Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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