There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
~By Susan George ~
I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.
~By Casey Kasum ~
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 ~
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
~By Mary MacLane ~
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!
~By Allan Sherman ~
I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.
~By Douglas Wilson ~
From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.
~By Whitney Houston ~
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
~By Brian Eno ~
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
~By Lance Burton ~
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.
~By Jason Isaacs ~
With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.
~By David Coverdale ~
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't.
~By Alex D. Linz ~
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
~By Franz Kafka ~
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
~By Confucius ~
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
~By Allan Sherman ~
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
~By Plato ~
I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.
~By Norman Lear ~
We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.
~By Marsha Blackburn ~
After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.
~By Elisabeth Shue ~
More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.
~By Harry Vardon ~
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 people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.
~By Jon Voight ~
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 am still simple, just as if I were beginning.
~By Compay Segundo ~
We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.
~By Jimmy Sangster ~
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 ~
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
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 my beginning is my end.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
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 ~
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 ~
But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
~By Nina Simone ~
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 ~
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
~By Democritus ~
In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it.
~By Robin Gibb ~
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.
~By Bille August ~
Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
~By Kate Chopin ~
But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.
~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
~By Dorothy Day ~
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
~By Gordon Getty ~
They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?
~By Clifford Longley ~
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
~By Bret Harte ~
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
~By Beth Orton ~
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
~By Angela Carter ~
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
~By John Barton ~
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
~By Henry Ellis ~
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 ~
I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.
~By Sasha Alexander ~
I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.
~By Paul Begala ~
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 ~
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
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 faith rather than reason.
~By Hal Borland ~
I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
~By Chaim Potok ~
As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.
~By Helen Clark ~
We come to beginnings only at the end.
~By William Throsby Bridges ~
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
~By Gloria Steinem ~
From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
~By Mary Austin ~
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 ~
Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.
~By Compay Segundo ~
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
~By Frank Herbert ~
You always think you're better than you are in the beginning.
~By Todd Barry ~
Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
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 ~
It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.
~By Bille August ~
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
~By Plato ~
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
~By John Ruskin ~
Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.
~By Carlos Alvarez ~
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.
~By Ellen Muth ~
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
~By Joseph L. Mankiewicz ~
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