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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Beginning Quotes

This could be the beginning of the change of American democracy not to illiberalism, but to enlightenment. But it will have to come from the bottom up. For at the White House, there is no one home.

– General John Allen

On Donald Trump’s response to people’s protests on racism.

When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.

– John O’Donohue

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

– Mr. Spock

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991 Film).

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

– Mother Teresa

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

– Harry Emerson Fosdick

The past is but the past of a beginning.

– H. G. Wells

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I’m playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That’s really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

– Hugh Dancy

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

– Harold E. Varmus

My first Grammy wasn’t even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. ‘Rockit’ was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

– Herbie Hancock

There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby’s or something.

– Hugh Grant

I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

– Hamish Bowles

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I’d just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.

– Heather O’Reilly

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

– Henry Miller

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

– Henry Kissinger

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We’ve had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn’t been for the American nuclear umbrella.

– Haley Barbour

Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.

– Harald zur Hausen

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn’t at all clear in the beginning.

– Gordon Moore

As New Zealanders, we’ve been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter – it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

– Helen Clark

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

– Havelock Ellis

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism – which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people – is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

– Harold Bloom

I revise a lot while I’m drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I’ve changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I’ve been through the beginning lots of times.

– Holly Black

When I had no shoes I was comfortable – I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

– Haile Gebrselassie

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

– Harry Vardon

I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I’m not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

– Hanya Yanagihara

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

– George Jackson

I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven’t tweeted anything, and I haven’t followed anyone.

– George Dyson

We were very fortunate to be in YouTube in the very beginning. There wasn’t a lot of content on there, so we were pretty easy to find on YouTube. That was really helpful in growing our channel.

– Ian Hecox

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

– H. G. Wells

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

– George Haven Putnam

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion – not necessarily when I’m expecting it. You just have to cope with it – take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

– Helen Mirren

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