Rabbi Akiva Quotes

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

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• At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Choice

• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Interest
  • Test
  • Studies

• From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Perspective

• African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Beginning
  • Been

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Beginning
  • Legend
  • Brand

• 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.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• 'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Beginning
  • Heaven

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Success
  • Beginning
  • Selling

• Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Fiction

• Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Fate
  • Retail

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Career
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Energy
  • Beginning
  • Couple

• I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Beginning

• I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Good
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Great
  • History
  • Beginning

• There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Trying

• I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • Night

• The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Friends
  • Japanese

• Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Water

• In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

  

  Rabbi Akiva
  • Beginning