Beginning Quotes

• Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • Fear
  • Wisdom
  • Lord

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Sangster
  • Life
  • Up
  • Beginning

• As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

  

  Arne Glimcher
  • World
  • Art
  • America

• Nature has had regard in everything no less to the end than to the beginning and the continuance, just like a man who throws up a ball. What good is it then for the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it to come down... what good is it to the bubble while it holds together, or what harm when it is burst?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Good
  • Together

• Largely in the beginning, I did a lot of extra work because I was lighter than all the other guys. I was at a massive disadvantage, so I had to put on weight. I started with eating. I had to really focus on my diet.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Work
  • Focus
  • Beginning

• I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

  

  Dougray Scott
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Humanity
  • Compassion
  • Essence

• The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

  

  George Burns
  • Secret
  • Ending
  • Sermon

• If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Beginning

• Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Time
  • World
  • Appreciation

• All my shoes are named after poisonous flowers, so since the beginning I've had the idea of doing something with danger in it.

  

  Chloe Gosselin
  • Beginning
  • Shoes

• I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • World
  • Good
  • Trying

• Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Shadow

• We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

  

  Kathleen Troia McFarland
  • War
  • Society
  • Peace

• I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• At the beginning of my career, it was really difficult for my family to understand what I was working on, but they supported me anyway and gave me the best advice, which was to always be myself.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Family
  • Career
  • Advice

• Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Beginning

• We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Beginning
  • Ending

• 'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Reading

• Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Team

• Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.

  

  John Gerzema
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Black

• Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

  

  George A. Moore
  • Art
  • Beginning

• Art is not an end but a beginning.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Beginning

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