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Beginning Quotes


"Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning."


"They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning."


"I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more."


"As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed."


"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."


"I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look."


"I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired."


"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."


"Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well."


"I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked."


"I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough."



"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"


"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."


"Only beginning to present itself over the horizon."


"I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation."


"I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such."


"Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning."


"I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?"


"The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure."


"I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either."


"The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out."



"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."


"I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot."


"The journey has been incredible from its beginning."


"Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches."


"But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide."


"South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake."


"I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?"


"We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite."


"We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place."


"My gay audience has been with me from the beginning."
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