Beginnings are always messy.
John Galsworthy's quotes
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
Headlines twice the size of the events.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
The French cook; we open tins.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
By the cigars they smoke and the composers they love ye shall know the texture of mens souls.
Take modern courtships They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second but took longer to reach it owing to the motor cycle and the standing lunch.
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter of fact vision.
Its not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
The law it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
There's just one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in Opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
Wilhelm Wundt
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
John Barton
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.
John Linder
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.
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 Y. Agnon
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
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.
Hal Borland
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
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.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
A. E. van Vogt
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
William Throsby Bridges
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but 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 forth faith rather than reason.
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.
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
John Denham
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
Irving Langmuir
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.
Jack Irons
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
Good seasons start with good beginnings.
Sparky Anderson
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
Hu Shih
We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.
Trisha Goddard