Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

Anna Jameson

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Armstrong Williams

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

The rap on him coming out, talking with some of the other tight end coaches in the league, they questioned his hands and I was glad they did. I had my eyes on him from the beginning and he was the one I wanted. I was just fortunate and blessed, I'd say, to be able to get him in the third round.

There is just so much stuff out there until we can get out and begin doing some assessments and getting water-quality samples, we are encouraging people to stay off the water.

There is intelligence information that there are people in Khartoum who were not in Khartoum before. In these situations it is to a certain extent conjuncture (but) it would be unwise not to take the beginnings of such warnings seriously.

Walter Dean Myers

I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.

Denis O'Hare

Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the peculiar drawbacks and strengths of the medium. For example, if I'm in the back of the stage and I want you to see my emotional change by a flicker of my eyelid, we're all going to be in for a long boring evening.

Derrick Jensen

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

Cory Booker

After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.

Louie Anderson

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

Louie Gohmert

It began to really eat away with me that in the '60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, 'We'll help: we'll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.'

Louie Gohmert

Whether you're president or speaker, if you're wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. That's what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

Kenny Loggins

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

You didn't know when they were going to start, but they began today.

You have this every couple years. You have a 10 or 11 percent decline. We've had it. It will probably go a little bit lower but this is not the beginning of the end.

Today (Wednesday), a lot of people are on the sidelines, but I think generally investors are beginning to return to the market after they were vacant in the first three weeks of the year, ... Mutual Fund inflows have shown that.

Ike Diogu

We didn't come out to play very well in the beginning and we turned it up in the second half but you know, the deficit was just too big for us to take the game.

Matt Harpring

We didn't come out to play in the beginning of the game, and we didn't come out to play after the first half. It's tough to watch from the bench, and to see your team get down, because you can't spot a good team like this 20 points.

We didn't come out at the beginning of the game with the mind set that we were going to win this game. We did a better job in the second half, but we dug ourselves a hole early on.

We did not shoot well at the beginning of the game when we had all those easy shots.

Kelly Ryan

We didn't really play that well last year. We didn't play that well at the beginning of the season at all last year. I know I'm looking to play pretty well in it this year, hopefully for first place on Saturday.

Sean Kelly

We didn't really have it together at the beginning of the second half, ... But we stepped it up after the goal. We realized we had to step it up, and we really had to keep our marks, because they're a really quick team, really good offensively.

We don't have enough Hawaiian voices. I go to the universities, schools, even grade schools and I beg them to write down their family stories. We're such an oral society that if we don't they will disappear.

We don't have a real firm date, but we are still looking at the springtime date to begin construction. Maybe late March or early April, somewhere in there.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins

Hall Caine

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

Helen Dunmore

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

We are a call and response, call and response place. Our mission from the beginning was not lose hope. If you do not stand strong, you will be destroyed.

We're not surprised some groups would oppose this at the very beginning of a public debate. We're confident that upon careful review, the Legislature will recognize the significant economic, public safety, and environmental benefits of the project.

We're not shy about using that name to get people out to see us, but once they're there, we hook them in with Naked Beggars songs. But we do a few Cinderella songs.

We're not satisfied with silver or bronze. Our thought since the beginning of the year is that we've got to come back with gold.

Howard Gordon

We're lucky, at the beginning of the year, if we know where it starts. It really has become more and more of an improvisation. I think that's part of what gives the show its energy. We paint ourselves into corners and blast our way out of those corners.