Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Begin Quotes

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

– Jose Ortega y Gasset

Begin with another’s to end with your own.

– Baltasar Gracian

Our visions begin with our desires.

– Audre Lorde

I am not a big reader to begin with.

– Billy Burke

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

– Arthur Schopenhauer

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

– Clarence Day

Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.

– Gregory Stock

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

– Miguel de Unamuno

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

– Gloria Steinem

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

– Martin Buber

I begin by considering an effect.

– Maurice Ravel

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

– Epictetus

I can’t begin to describe the amount of crap I’ve taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

– Dennis Rodman

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

– Edmund Spenser

To begin with, I don’t have any stage fright.

– Ednita Nazario

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

– Cliff Stearns

I always begin to compose the melody first.

– Nobuo Uematsu

To retire is to begin to die.

– Pablo Casals

I’m not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

– Pete Rose

I’ve been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

– Morrissey

Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.

– Kate Winslet

I didn’t actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

– Katey Sagal

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

– Quintilian

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

– Rudy Giuliani

‘Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

– Richard Brinsley Sheridan

All men begin their learning with Homer.

– Xenophanes

Begin with the end in mind.

– Stephen Covey

To begin, begin.

– William Wordsworth

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

– Stanislaus I