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Quotes About Beginning

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?
~ Roger Ebert
I do not know much about this man [Jesus], but I do know that his whole life conveys one message: 'anyone at any moment can start a new future.
~ Roger Garaudy
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
~ Roger McGough
Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman's belongings. Began the day by looking at her photographs. A cruel mourning begins again (but had never ended). To begin again without resting. Sisyphus.
~ Roland Barthes
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
~ Roland Barthes
I myself cannot construct my love story to the end. I am its poet (its bard) only for the beginning; the end, like my own death, belongs to others; it is up to them to write the fiction, the external, mythic narrative.
~ Roland Barthes
I myself cannot (as an enamored subject) construct my love story to the end: I am its poet (its bard) only for the beginning; the end, like my own death, belongs to others; it is up to them to write the fiction, the external, mythic narrative.
~ Roland Barthes
Oh how blessed the young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and a beginning in life. I shall never cease to be grateful for the three and a half years of apprenticeship and the difficulties to be overcome, all the way along.
~ Ron Chernow
In the words of Howell Cobb of Georgia, who helped to create the Confederacy, "The day you make soldiers of [slaves] is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong—but they won't make good soldiers.
~ Ron Chernow
Having helped Eliza keep the books, he enjoyed a head start.
~ Ron Chernow
The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? —LOUISE BOGAN, Journey Around My Room
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Finally, and inevitably, the flat universe will further flatten into a nothingness that mirrors its beginning. Not only will there be no cosmologists to look out on the universe, there will be nothing for them to see even if they could. Nothing at all. Not even atoms. Nothing. If you think that's bleak and cheerless, too bad. Reality doesn't owe us comfort.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Life can come only from other life.
~ Lawrence O. Richards
In the world as we know it today, there is no way that life can simply start up on its own, coming from nonliving matter.
~ Lawrence O. Richards
1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
~ Lawrence O. Richards
Despite many things we can't explain, a study of our world convinces us that the universe, our planet, and life itself, really could not "just happen." In the beginning, there was God!
~ Lawrence O. Richards
The first day of the rest of my life.
~ Lee Child
She didn't explain. So knowing that, where would you start?" "I could tell you, but then I'd have to bill you.
~ Lee Child
The woman bent decorously at the knees and laid her briefcase and her stack of papers on the floor. Ratcliffe took a step forward and said, "You three were brought here under false pretenses, obviously. But we didn't want a lot of fanfare. A little misdirection was better. We want to avoid attention, if we can. At least at the beginning." And
~ Lee Child
And then he paused, for the drama, as if inviting questions, but no one asked any. Not even: the beginning of what? Better to hear the pitch all the way through. Always safer, with orders from on high. Ratcliffe
~ Lee Child
Peter had said they should think on it, and they had, not because he told them, but because it was their natures. It was the Saint Leonard way. Engage brain. Think before you speak. Begin at the beginning.
~ Lee Child
These guys hadn't mixed with the public since they took the bus up the Hudson to start their plebe year at the Point.
~ Lee Child
miles away, but it was the first stop. There
~ Lee Child