When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. Helen Rowland American Writer More Helen Rowland Quotes 1
If you can get a young person to the age of 18, 19 or 20 and they have not begun to smoke, it is unlikely they ever will. David Kessler More David Kessler Quotes 1
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Poet More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 1
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. Alison Lurie American Novelist More Alison Lurie Quotes 0
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future. Kathy Mattea American Musician More Kathy Mattea Quotes 0
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process. Mary McCarthy American Author More Mary McCarthy Quotes 0
Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered. Kelly Miller American Sociologist More Kelly Miller Quotes 0
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. Rick Moody American Novelist More Rick Moody Quotes 0
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. Samuel Richardson English Novelist More Samuel Richardson Quotes 0
I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air. Audie Murphy American Soldier More Audie Murphy Quotes 0
I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image. David Rockefeller American Businessman More David Rockefeller Quotes 0
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt American First Lady More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes 0
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Christina G. Rossetti English Poet More Christina G. Rossetti Quotes 0
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year. Joseph Rotblat Polish Physicist More Joseph Rotblat Quotes 0
Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun. Martin Chemnitz German Theologian More Martin Chemnitz Quotes 0
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. Sri Aurobindo Indian Philosopher More Sri Aurobindo Quotes 0
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. John Desmond Bernal Irish Scientist More John Desmond Bernal Quotes 0
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely. Lionel Blue British Clergyman More Lionel Blue Quotes 0
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. Eric Allin Cornell American Physicist More Eric Allin Cornell Quotes 0
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. Nicolaus Copernicus Polish Scientist More Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes 0
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions. Sydney Brenner British Scientist More Sydney Brenner Quotes 0
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha Leader More Buddha Quotes 0
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. Jacques Derrida French Philosopher More Jacques Derrida Quotes 0