Quotes About Beginning

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.

It is but honest that I should acknowledge at the beginning of my recital that I was born an ordinary Woggle-Bug, began the creature, in a frank and friendly tone.

That's true. On the other hand, everybody has to start again, fresh every day, from wherever they are.

I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"