In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
~By Namie Amuro ~
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
~By Earle Brown ~
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
~By Beau Bridges ~
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.
~By Eric S. Raymond ~
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
~By Jack Vance ~
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.
~By Dave Thomas ~
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.
~By John Hull ~
Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.
~By Robert Patterson ~
I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.
~By Mick Taylor ~
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.
~By Thomas Dooley ~
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
~By Michael Beschloss ~
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
~By John Hersey ~
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, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
~By Natalie Portman ~
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.
~By James Durbin ~
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.
~By Compay Segundo ~
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
~By Adolf Loos ~
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
~By Lao Tzu ~
I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.
~By Mario Monti ~
In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
~By Islom Karimov ~
I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
~By Pat Buckley ~
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
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 ~
There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
~By Lynda Barry ~
You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
~By Bill Kurtis ~
Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.
~By Lee Haney ~
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
~By David Soul ~
I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.
~By Sean Hayes ~
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
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 ~
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?
~By Don DeLillo ~
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
~By Irving Langmuir ~
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
~By Omar Epps ~
Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.
~By Pete du Pont ~
I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
~By Gyorgy Legeti ~
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
~By Edward Blake ~
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
~By Alex Campbell ~
I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
~By Scott McClellan ~
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 ~
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
~By Henry Ford ~
I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
~By Ike Turner ~
The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.
~By Jim Walsh ~
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
~By Gilda Radner ~
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
~By William Bligh ~
I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
~By Sadie Frost ~
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
~By Don Ellis ~
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
~By Alfred Eisenstaedt ~
The beginning is always today.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.
~By Shmuel Y. Agnon ~
I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.
~By Sumner Redstone ~
I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
~By Jack Kilby ~
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
~By Titus Livius ~
Before beginning, plan carefully.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
~By Hesiod ~
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
~By Eric S. Raymond ~
The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
~By Walter Salles ~
Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
~By Jimmy Smith ~
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
~By Rachel True ~
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
~By Edward Said ~
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
~By Hal Borland ~
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
The future is always beginning now.
~By Mark Strand ~
At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.
~By Paul Pierce ~
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
~By Hu Shih ~
However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
Beginnings are always messy.
~By John Galsworthy ~
We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
~By George Burns ~
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
~By Nathan Deal ~
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
~By Nicholas Negroponte ~
At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.
~By Jam Master Jay ~
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
~By Arundhati Roy ~
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
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 very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
~By Jean Piaget ~
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
~By Emma Willard ~
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
~By Bill Walsh ~
From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
~By Robert Casey ~
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