Quotes About Beginning

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Our love affair was chic from beginning to end; the rumpled intellectual and the skilled maîtresse.

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

It was the beginning of June; summer was arising out of spring, like an aloe from a field of grass.

Pour elle, l'enchantement commençait. Pour lui, la pitié excluait déjà le désir.

What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

My point is, it's tempting," she said. "It is certainly tempting to continue on with something because it has already begun.

To begin, it is narrated by Death!

The failure was in the conception.

The best part of this moment is that everything is still possible.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Civilization begins with soap.

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

The Judeo-Christian view, in contrast, historically regarded nature as the nonliving creation of a rational God, not cyclic but with a definite beginning and end.

En la tarde de ese día, en medio del tumulto causado por la tormenta, en una pequeña casa en la isla de Xaltocan, nací de mi madre para empezar a morir.

The right discipline goes a long way, and habits are hard only in the beginning.

El secreto para salir adelante es empezar. El secreto de empezar es dividir las tareas complejas que te agobian en tareas pequeñas y manejables y entonces empezar por la primera.

In the study of Christian spirituality, real contemplation is actually an experience with a beginning and an end that Christians pass through. Contemplation is not generally considered a life-state that one exists in, so I'm adapting the word somewhat when I use it as a label for a spiritual temperament.

When time stops, life starts.

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.     ââ'¬â€Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (1992)

And so it ends as it began. By the light of two suns. Before stepping into a larger world.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.