Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

Marsha Norman

This story begins where all great stories start, with loss. 'Hansel and Gretel' begins with the parents are gone, 'Cinderella' and 'Sleeping Beauty,' the mom is dead.

Gordon Smith

This starts at 4 o'clock in the morning with trucks -- the Sears store, Home Depot, the cement plant. That is when your day begins and it doesn't stop until 10, 11 p.m.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Trey Gowdy

The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

Cameron Crowe

I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

Paul Anka

When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone.

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.

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

We do expect broad-based dollar weakness to resume when or shortly after the U.S. Federal Reserve begins to signal the end of the current tightening cycle.

Richard Mourdock

Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.

In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin.

Spencer Bachus

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

Joe Biden

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

Francis Thompson

Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Della Reese

One of the things I learned from Mahalia Jackson was how to communicate with people through song, ... The communication begins inside of you, then it is brought out to the people.

My concern is that when the economy begins to slow, as I expect this year, revenue will fall as well, but it will be hard for the government to slow spending.

Charles Kennedy

Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.

Michael Baumgartner

I am still a Catholic. I still believe life begins at conception. That is consistent with my Catholic beliefs. And I believe we must protect life. Whenever abortion comes up, we get questioned about the exceptions, but no one ever questions the extreme positions on the other side: late-term abortions, no on parental notification.

Because of the strong global economy, there is a safety net surrounding the U.S. economy -- so if it begins to slow, it won't slow much because there is tremendous support.

Patricia McKillip

Imagination must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.

Now you're going to look for the best doctor at the best price for your money in your area. It really begins to change the dynamic of the patient-doctor relationship.

Neither of these are particularly sensitive to the economics. They have other reasons why they're buying this. There's a question as to how large those groups are, but once you get to more mainstream buying groups, then economics really begins to take over as a primary factor in that decision.

Joseph Stalin

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ""peace conference,"" you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Greg Chappell

I have just arrived. But yes, I would like to do something (before the series begins on October 25). If we can get together for 2-3 days before the first game begins, it will be good.

Jonas Mekas

I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.

If China introduces all these more flexible measures, and capital decides it wants to leave China, then it makes it easier for the currency to go down. If the currency begins to weaken, you'll find quite a lot of people taking money out. It tends to be self- fulfilling.

I can't imagine this thing begins and ends with Sanjay.

I don't have classes on Friday, so my day begins as soon as I get out of class on Thursday at 4:15 p.m.. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but if I were to go somewhere it would probably be Atlanta.

Antoine Walker

I am excited. Our preparation begins tomorrow. When I was with Boston, we were just trying to get in the playoffs. Our goal here is to win a championship.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

For me, a story begins with music: I feel the rhythm, the cadence, the pulse of the characters and their voices and the setting. Because I had just finished writing a book called 'Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine,' I was already filled with the music of the lives and culture of the Irish people, so I thought, why not use it?