Beginnings Quotes

I was born in the house my father built.

Richard M. Nixon

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

Clark Gable

You can't buy love but you can pay heavily for it.

Henny Youngman

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.

Thomas Campbell

Love is a deep well from which you may drink often but into which you may fall but once.

Ellye Howell Glover

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jule Renard

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone it has to be made like bread remade all the time made new.

Ursula K Le Guin

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back in a second flowering at the age of 70 to 90.

Isak Dinesen

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Mary Wilson Little

Love at first sight is easy to understand it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Sam Levenson

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

W Somerset Maugham

No this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Albert Einstein

Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D.H. Lawrence

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Honoré de Balzac

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

Love is a madness if thwarted it develops fast.

Mark Twain

Love is like war easy to begin but hard to end.

Anonymous

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Helen Rowland

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walker

I believe in love but I don't sit around waiting for it.

Renee Zellweger

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

Charles Baudelaire

I cannot fix on the hour or the spot or the look or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Fitzwilliam Darcy

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Bertrand Russell

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

Louisa May Alcott

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night.The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again.When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart.It is your immortal inspiration.

Vera Nazarian

If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal.

Neil Gaiman

It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.

Steve Yarbrough

He flexed his fingers and fought the urge to put his hand on her stomach. It was a possessivegesture, and he felt a little bit possessive

Maisey Yates

But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing over. I can feel the promise of a new beginning.

Aimee Friedman

a long time ago when cataclysms were commonas sneezes and land masses slidaround the globe looking for placesto settle down and become continents,someone introduced us at a party.

Billy Collins

I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.

Crystal Woods

What I would be quite wise to remember is that ‘pieces’ are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can’t have the same experience.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.

Shannon L. Alder

There's never a beginning for eternity.

Toba Beta

Endings and beginnings look just the same.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals.

Lorii Myers

I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean.

T.C. Boyle

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

Ann Leckie

Puss hopped down from the couch and rummaged in Mark’s closet until he found a black leather belt. This he looped along his shoulder, around his waist, and then clasped together. “I’m off to make war, so that you may have love.

Zechariah Barrett

Once a cat loves you, it loves you till the end.

Will Advise

It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hours in the precinct jail. It was a clear bright day, but there was warmth in the sun. Danny shivered with an inner cold. He turned up the collar of his worn, greasy black overcoat. This beat benny wouldn't pawn for a deuce, he thought.

William S Burroughs

Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he'd look in on the Sailor's Grave, his old tin can's tavern on East Main Street.

Thomas Pynchon

Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main,Sailors and their sweethearts all agree.Neon signs of red and greenShine upon the friendly scene,Welcoming you in from off the sea.Santa's bag is filled with all your dreams come true:Nickel beers that sparkle like champagne,Barmaids who all love to screw,All of them reminding youIt's Christmas Eve on old East Main.

Thomas Pynchon

And when the end comes, we shall see the end. We shall see and understand how we started better. We shall see those who started well and those who ended well. When the end comes, we shall surely see the end!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have always been considered a bit of an outsider, and a general failure at everything I put my hand towards. In fact, you might even go so far as to say that I’m a lesser being of great insignificance! I state this because, when writing a story, you should always start the first line off with at least one basic truth.-First lines from the novel Sukiyaki

Andrew James Pritchard

The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

Nathan Englander

And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities.

Toni Sorenson

But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually develop and slowly take upon ourselves, little by little, our part in the great task of love? We have been spared all its trouble, and that is why it has slipped in among our distractions, as a piece of real lace will sometimes fall into a child's toy-box and please him and no longer please him, and finally it lies there among the broken and dismembered toys, more wretched than any of them. We have been spoiled by superficial pleasures like dilettantes, and are looked upon as masters. But what if we despised our successes? What if we started from the very outset to learn the task of love, which has always been done for us? What if we went ahead and became beginners, now that much is changing?

Rainer Maria Rilke

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Hannah Arendt

The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest

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