Quotes About Beginning

It is a string of letters, written in a slanted fashion; the words seem to slide down the page, as if they weigh more at the end of the sentence than at the beginning. He bends to look.

When she first came to New York she knew no one. She arrived in a rush, like someone who trips when they enter a room.

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

I used to love winter, and I would listen to it, drop by drop. Rain, rain like an appeal to a lover, Pour down my body! Winter was not lament pointing to the end of life. It was the beginning. It was hope. So what shall I do, as life falls like hair? What will I do this winter?

here departs from his master, and holds that the spheres and the intellects had a beginning, and were brought into existence by the will of the Creator. He does not attempt to give a positive proof of his doctrine; all he contends is that the theory of the creatio ex nihilo is, from a philosophical point of view, not inferior to the doctrine which asserts the eternity of the universe, and that he can refute all objections advanced against his theory (ch. xiii.-xxviii.).

We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

Van entretenir-se més en arribar a les dues cases contigües on havien viscut i que, passatgerament, ressuscitaren en ells una emoció fàcil de contenir, perquè ara ja no eren aquelles dues criatures que, de sobte, ho perdien tot, sinó un noi i una noia aleshores inexistents, la història dels quals començava al moment que es decidien a ser origen i no acabament.

Det som hadde begynt som en feber to år tidligere, var nå blitt nesten kaldt som is.

feel that my mission is about to begin, my mission to make God loved as I love Him, to teach souls my little way.

Det finns en märklig paradox i en spirande kärlekshistoria. Man blir ängslig. Rädd för att tala om för den andra parten att man inte kan låta bli att tänka på henne eller honom hela tiden. Man vill ge allt, men man snålar, hushållar med lyckan som om den gick att spara, lägga på hög. Kärlekens begynnelse är lika idiotisk som bräcklig.

On the very site 'where the Christian religion in our nation took its rise', he lamented,

there misery and calamity have begun'.

guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace of the syllables so as to bring them, despite their difference of quantity, into a uniform rhythm, and breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling.

endowing the imperfect and the preterite with all the sweetness which there is in generosity, all the melancholy which there is in love; guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace of the syllables so as to bring them, despite their difference in quantity, into a uniform rhythm, and breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling.

Já houve quem dissesse que a beleza é uma promessa de felicidade. Inversamente a possibilidade de prazer pode ser um começo de beleza.

For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

WE know no time when we were not as now..

But now at last the sacred influence Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire As from her outmost works a broken foe With tumult less and with less hostile din

Rose out of Chaos:

The Earth was form'd, but in the Womb as yet   Of Waters, Embryon immature involv'd,   Appeer'd not: over all the face of Earth   Main Ocean flow'd, not idle, but with warme   Prolific humour soft'ning all her Globe,   Fermented the great Mother to conceave,   Satiate with genial moisture, when God said   Be gather'd now ye Waters under Heav'n   Into one place, and let dry Land appeer.

refuse to begin can be an act of great self-neglect.

A good beginning is half the work.

Admitting to a problem is the first step toward finding a solution. Confessing a sin is the beginning of redemption.

that morning, and a half