I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.
The reason I choose the stories I choose – and it’s why it takes me so long to find ideas – is that I’m looking for that very thing. I want an idea that begins, I want a middle that is compelling and will bring readers along, and I definitely want an ending.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.
No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That’s what acting is.
As many of you know, my story begins where most people’s in the LGBT+ community begins… with fear. I knew I was different from my peers, my friends, and those around me when I started to discover who I was and who I identified as from a young age.
Listen, I think what’s best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates – for all Americans. It – it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Everything begins and ends with the writing.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate – from the janitor to the executive – begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can’t do much with the script. I’ve tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I’ve found it turns out to be a waste of time.
The foundation of family – that’s where it all begins for me.
Spirituality is not a formula; it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection. The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives.
When something happens to you, suffering doesn’t begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing – as something that is wrong.
‘Treme’ begins after Hurricane Katrina, and it’s a year-by-year account of how everyday people there put their lives back together. It’s sort of a testament to, or an argument for why, a great American city like New Orleans needs to be saved and preserved.
There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn’t ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for – if you are honest – you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Jews were asked when life begins. For them it’s when they finally graduate medical school.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
The life I remember begins at Imperia, where I went to school, including the Ginnasio-Liceo ‘De Amicis.’
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people – seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space – buoys up the whole neighborhood.
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It’s hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff – so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
You normally either get bitten by a character and decide that is the way to play it, and then that begins to inform everything you do, or you decide, ‘I don’t need to use much character in this – I have basically got to be me’.
Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
The problem for most self-starting leaders who do not have a mentor begins when they measure the results and find themselves fully aware of the data and the analytics, but are completely unaware of what to do.
Any musical form that has been around long enough to have cultural resonance beyond just being a cutting edge kind of communication – but, especially, when it begins to reflect on a time and reflect on a culture – is effective in a musical.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
For a ballerina, the center of balance is everything – creating a strong center of balance begins with building strong abdominal muscles.
I believe one’s responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a good role model is.
When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama’s face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?
