Quotes About Beginning

Why does every relationship end the same way?" In most cases the answer is, "Because every relationship started the same way.

you want me to follow you on a journey, you have to come get me. The journey must begin where I am, not where you are or where you think I should be.

Beginning empty-handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how confident they are that God is with them.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

The air shuddered with the beginning of absence.

I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.

For now my skin was my sole capital in the world and today I'd make my first investment.

It was the beginning of an anxiety that would never end, except with the deaths of either or both; and anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but it is not compatible with innocence.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power.

First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.

I simply want to live with someone so that I can begin my life.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

The car starts the first time he turns the key.

I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.

When you start out somewhere, you've got to get your feet wet. You got to find your place.

It was fun getting my feet wet on an NBA floor.

What if the counterculture was only a stumbling beginning, rather than the best that could be hoped for?

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.'

Whenever you start a new job, it's always a bit daunting, the unknown.

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Home is where one starts from.

I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.