A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
~By Joschka Fischer ~
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.
~By John Gould ~
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
~By David Hume ~
I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'
~By Mary Lynn Rajskub ~
The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.
~By Robert Casey ~
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
~By Astrid Lindgren ~
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.
~By Linda Chavez ~
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.
~By Kelly Jones ~
A beginning is the end of something, always.
~By Spider Robinson ~
I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
~By Anne Rice ~
Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.
~By Roy Ayers ~
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
~By Norman Spinrad ~
Only beginning to present itself over the horizon.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
~By H. G. Wells ~
From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
~By Benoit Mandelbrot ~
The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
~By Kenko Yoshida ~
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
~By Lord Byron ~
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
~By Barry Levinson ~
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
~By Billie Jean King ~
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
~By Philip Sidney ~
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
~By Plato ~
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
~By Titus Livius ~
The past is but the past of a beginning.
~By H. G. Wells ~
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
~By Bette Davis ~
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
~By Eric S. Raymond ~
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
~By Coretta Scott King ~
In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
~By Ayumi Hamasaki ~
I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.
~By Tom Berenger ~
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
~By Nicholson Baker ~
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
~By Tracy Kidder ~
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.
~By Jam Master Jay ~
I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
~By Alain Prost ~
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
~By Leon Kass ~
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?
~By Kurt Masur ~
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
~By Matt Groening ~
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.
~By Matt Drudge ~
On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.
~By Clay Aiken ~
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
~By Judy Chicago ~
Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
~By Origen ~
My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Winning starts with beginning.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.
~By Dick Bruna ~
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
~By Joanna Southcott ~
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.
~By Marge Schott ~
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
~By Friedensreich Hundertwasser ~
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
~By Miguel de Icaza ~
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
~By Sally Kellerman ~
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.
~By Ben Crenshaw ~
But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.
~By Trisha Goddard ~
The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
~By Elizabeth George ~
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
~By Anne Rice ~
If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.
~By Betty Carter ~
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.
~By Rudolph A. Marcus ~
Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.
~By Kenneth Noland ~
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
~By Lauren Bacall ~
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
~By Indira Gandhi ~
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
~By Jim Rohn ~
It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.
~By Jack Irons ~
It's that event that's the beginning of the avalanche of this play. The first loose rock.
~By David Dukes ~
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.
~By Deborah Cox ~
Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
~By Lou Gramm ~
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'
~By Arthur H. Compton ~
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
~By Jamie Farr ~
I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
~By Rose Tremain ~
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
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