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Quotes About Beginning

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope.
~ Henri Matisse
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
~ Henri Matisse
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
~ Henri Matisse
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
~ Henry Adams
Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.
~ Henry C. Blinn
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I am starting all over again, I said to myself once more, but am running out of time.
~ Henry Marsh
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Now, suppose you tell me exactly what is going on," Papa Pete began. "I don't know where to start," I said. "Try the beginning," said Papa Pete.
~ Henry Winkler
On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took place contrary to human reason and to the whole of human nature.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that in reality, looking upon life, he had forgotten one little fact—that death will come, and all ends; that nothing was even worth beginning, and that there was no helping it anyway. Yes, it was awful, but it was so.
~ Leo Tolstoy
that day, at that hour, there took place in her heart a complete severance from all her old life, and a quite different, new, utterly strange life had begun for her,
~ Leo Tolstoy
We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us. That I say to you," he
~ Leo Tolstoy
It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.
~ Leon Uris
The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.
~ Leon Wieseltier
The birds they sang at the break of day. Start again!! I heard them say
~ Leonard Cohen
When you were neither seed not child and I was nothing too
~ Leonard Cohen
When you were neither seed nor child And I was nothing too
~ Leonard Cohen
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.
~ Leonid Andreyev
Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.
~ Leonid Andreyev