Quotes About Beginning

the rational treatment of any subject ought to take its start from definition, that readers may understand what the author is writing about.

The Infinite struck the void with the sound of the Word.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.

The threshold of a new house is a lonely place.

It's daybreak. The break of day. Toby turns this word over: break, broke, broken. What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

she doesn't want to begin, she wants to continue. No: she wants to go back.

Lighting a fire is an act of renewal, of beginning, and she doesn't want to begin, she wants to continue. No: she wants to go back.

There is a little verse I remember from a child: Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble begins. It doesn't say when a woman's trouble begins.

With you I could have more than one skin, a blank interior, a repertoire of untold stories, a fresh beginning.

Stories are no good, not even the short ones, because by the time you get to the second page he's forgotten the beginning. Where are we without our plots?

To wonder is to begin to know

The journey to joy begins with acceptance.

Omens. If I were beginning again, starting out in life, I would ignore all omens, neither heeding them nor trying to disable them. If we chose to pass them by, then perhaps they would lose their power, as old gods and goddesses, no longer worshiped, fade away and lose their grip on us.

This isn't the first time the world's been upside down and it won't be the last. It's happened before and it'll happen again. And when it does happen, everyone loses everything and everyone is equal. And then they all start again at taw, with nothing at all. That is, nothing except the cunning of their brains and strength of their hands.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

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.

The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.