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Quotes About Beginning

I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.
~ Skepta
From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.
~ David Wilkerson
Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.
~ Lesli Linka Glatter
All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical Mathematicks of the City of Heaven.
~ Thomas Browne
To be conscious that the end of a dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.
~ Thomas Hardy
To be conscious that the end of the dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.
~ Thomas Hardy
Love begins with a sense of superior discernment.
~ Thomas Hardy
It was not exactly the fault of the hut, she observed in a tone which showed her to be that novelty among women—one who finished a thought before beginning the sentence which was to convey it.
~ Thomas Hardy
You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
~ Thomas Harris
A week later he was working for the Tattler.
~ Thomas Harris
To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.
~ Thomas Harris
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
~ Thomas Mann
We come out of darkness and return to darkness, with some experiences in between. But we don't experience the beginning and the end, birth and death. We are not subjectively aware of them, they exist only in the world of objective events—and that's that.
~ Thomas Mann
Je crois que l'humanité commence là où les gens sans génie figurent qu'elle s'arrête.
~ Thomas Mann
Un sitio libre, en un rincón cercano a la puerta, atrajo felizmente su mirada. Se colocó con discreción y procuró hacer ver que se hallaba sentado allí desde el principio.
~ Thomas Mann
Recommencer depuis le commencement ? Mais cela ne servirait de rien. Ce serait de nouveau pareil - tout ce qui est arrivé arriverait encore. Car certains être s'égarent nécessairement parce qu'il n'y a pas pour eux de vrai chemin.
~ Thomas Mann
era como una estrofa de un poema primitivo que hablara de los tiempos originarios, del comienzo de la forma y del nacimiento de los dioses.
~ Thomas Mann
În realitate, timpul nu are desp?rÈ›ituri, la începutul unei luni sau al unui nou an nu exist? nici tunete, nici furtuni, nici sunete de trâmbiÈ›e, È™i chiar È™i în zorii unui secol numai oamenii sunt cei care trag cu puÈ™ca È™i sun? din clopot.
~ Thomas Mann
The beginning of the fight against hatred, the basic Christian answer to hatred, is not the commandment to love, but what must necessarily come before in order to make the commandment bearable and comprehensible. It is a prior commandment, to believe. The root of Christian love is not the will to love, but the faith that one is loved. The faith that one is loved by God. That faith that one is loved by God although unworthy—or, rather, irrespective of one's worth!
~ Thomas Merton
Hope is the wedding of two freedoms, human and divine, in the acceptance of a love that is at once a promise and the beginning of fulfillment.
~ Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is truth, and before He will give us His love, God must cleanse our souls of the lies that are in them. And the most effective way of detaching us from ourselves is to make us detest our­selves.
~ Thomas Merton
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of heaven. And
~ Thomas Merton
How could this fatuous, emotional thing be without beginning and without end, the creator of all? I had taken the dead letter of Scripture at its very deadest, and it had killed me, according to the saying of St. Paul: The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life
~ Thomas Merton
The Chinese remind us that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, yet they keep curiously silent about the step itself, which too often must be taken, as now, from inaccessible ground, if not indeed straight down into an unmeasured abyss.
~ Thomas Pynchon