All Quotes

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
‐‐ Lord Byron

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
‐‐ David Lloyd

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
‐‐ George Eliot

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
‐‐ Frank Herbert

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
‐‐ Robert Bly

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.
‐‐ Juan Pablo Di Pace

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'
‐‐ Sandra Oh

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.
‐‐ Richard Lugar

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
‐‐ Aristotle

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.
‐‐ Lance Bass

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
‐‐ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
‐‐ John Galsworthy

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

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.
‐‐ Shmuel Yosef Agnon

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
‐‐ Eric S. Raymond

The begonia is an amazing plant... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.
‐‐ Gladys Taber

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.
‐‐ Ai Weiwei

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
‐‐ Ma Jian

The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
‐‐ Mary Wollstonecraft

The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.
‐‐ Craig Roberts

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.
‐‐ Justin Bieber

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
‐‐ James Theodore Bent

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
‐‐ Robert Wilson Lynd

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
‐‐ Ronald Ross

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.
‐‐ Phil Schiller

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
‐‐ Charles Rosen

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
‐‐ Joseph Glanvill

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
‐‐ Jennifer Armintrout

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
‐‐ John Dewey

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
‐‐ Paul Watzlawick

The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money.
‐‐ Eula Biss

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.
‐‐ Peter Singer

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
‐‐ Michael Crichton

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
‐‐ Max Born

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.
‐‐ Kevin Eubanks