Quotes tagged ‘Beginning’

“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“Whether this is my end or a new beginning, I have no way of knowing. I have given myself over into the hands of strangers. I have no choice. It can't be helped. And so I step up into the darkness within or else the light.”

— Margaret Atwood, Nina Fiore, Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“But gardens, Eden or Kew, are not the right metaphors here, for the primeval has nothing to do with the human, but has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new...”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“...there are many indications that it is the future that enters into us like this, in order to be transformed within us, long before it actually occurs. And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and static moment when our futur…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“There is no one else for me. I begin and end with you.”

— Samantha Towle, amazon.com

“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com

“And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.”

— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com

“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live, breathe before it’s gone.”

— Rumi, billmoyers.com

“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

“The world’s not black and white. Life doesn’t have good guys and bad guys or a beginning, middle, and end. Not while you’re living it. It’s just people doing stuff that’s beautiful or stupid or somewhere in the middle.”

— Robin York, amazon.com

“What's left undone today, is still not done tomorrow; to every day there is a use and purpose; let Resoluteness promptly seize the forelock of the Possible, and then, reluctant to let go again, she's forced to carry on and be productive.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com

“I am the end or the beginning.”

— Franz Kafka, lareviewofbooks.org

“I was staring at you and you were staring at me and right then it was sort of like love, wasn’t it?”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.”

— Jon Acuff, twitter.com

“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”

— Pierce Brown, amazon.com

“I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com