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Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
AUSONIUS Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again
begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Two and a half years on, we must begin to bring this occupation to an end.
SIR MENZIES CAMPBELL To progress is always to begin always to begin again
MARTIN LUTHER He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things.
A memory remains just a tiny spark.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are d...
SHARON SALZBERG When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems...
EILEEN CADDY Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
JIM ROHN Release your mind to begin to think and let your mind begin to search for answers
SUNDAY ADELAJA Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
HENRY FORD The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time...
MARK TWAIN We can double the number of domestic air passengers if half these people begin flying.
GILBERTO LOPEZ MEYER Valuations still remain high in the European technology sector. I see about 10-15 percent further do...
MARTIN BROOKER LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!
HAYLEY WILLIAMS Let the experience begin!
FRANK GEHRY Let the games begin!
SUSAN COLLINS Let the revolution begin.
RON PAUL By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
ELEANOR MARX We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.
MENACHEM BEGIN UNIFIL was a complete disappointment. But a kind of multinational force.
MENACHEM BEGIN Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.
MENACHEM BEGIN We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come...
MENACHEM BEGIN We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to...
MENACHEM BEGIN After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion o...
MENACHEM BEGIN No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States.
MENACHEM BEGIN There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened...
MENACHEM BEGIN The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.
MENACHEM BEGIN The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem f...
MENACHEM BEGIN You annex foreign land, not your own country.
MENACHEM BEGIN You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.
MENACHEM BEGIN The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.
MENACHEM BEGIN The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America and w...
MENACHEM BEGIN There are those who say we must rescind the Golan Heights law that was passed in the Knesset. To res...
MENACHEM BEGIN Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national gr...
MENACHEM BEGIN He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational argu...
MENACHEM BEGIN The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of a...
MENACHEM BEGIN We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two c...
MENACHEM BEGIN In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transform...
MENACHEM BEGIN I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.
MENACHEM BEGIN We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
MENACHEM BEGIN My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were ...
MENACHEM BEGIN Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the j...
MENACHEM BEGIN Failure is the oppurtunity to begin again more intelligently.
HENRY FORD Let the Renaissance in the city begin.
LUCAS PIATT When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bot...
PEMA CHODRON If you want to relax the worry-tightened muscles in your face, let the half smile come to your face....
THICH NHAT HANH Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
HENRY FORD Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
HENRY FORD There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always ...
EVA GREGORY To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Find the willpower to begin work.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
THOMAS PAINE We have it in our power to begin the world over again
THOMAS PAINE It is somewhat surprising that collections of the 'hundred best books,' which usually begin ...
VINCENT MCNABB They recognize that you don't have to do it all. You just have to begin the work.
CHERYL KEEN Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We see that the inflation rate is going down, so that there is a chance that tax reform with its eno...
HANS EICHEL Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.
MICHAEL R. FRENCH Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
POPE PAUL VI Think - Ink - Begin, and thus a quote is born
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL They had a nice run to begin the second half so I told the guys they had to tighten up the defense. ...
TIM LOOMIS All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first on...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Lord, help me to begin to begin.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!
LEVIATHAN The lesson from the 1960s ... is not to get too excited when the Fed is finished this time around, b...
FRANCOIS TRAHAN The news should improve in the second half as likely Fed rate cuts begin to affect the economy and e...
STEVE MILUNOVICH Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Let begin to teach our people the principle of faithfulness
SUNDAY ADELAJA All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it
be finished in the first 1,000 da...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In wha...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Let go of your disappointments, mistakes and failures.
May you find complete healing, renewed ...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
SY MILLER AND JILL JACKSON It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
CALVIN COOLIDGE If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.
FREDERICK THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks
FREDERICK THE GREAT Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI Greatly begin! Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime--
Not failure, but low a...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Greatly begin! though thou have time - But for a line, be that sublime, - Not failure, but low aim i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
MOTHER TERESA Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
MOTHER THERESA All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first th...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES When you begin to fantasize about what you don't have, you begin to kill what you do have. #marriage
JAYCE O'NEAL Just wait until Friday nights. Then let the popping begin.
HASSAN BAZZI TITANIA Out of this wood do not desire to go; Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
MADISON SMARTT BELL You're about to become the thing you hate. Let the games begin.
NICHOLAS BELLA We remain on plan to begin rolling out a number of new products, including our instant single-use ca...
GARY DICAMILLO Things couldn't end if she didn't let them begin.
SAMANTHA SOTTO A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
MORRIS FISHBEIN A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
MORRIS FISHBEIN A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work
MORRIS FISHBEIN I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.
BERNARD HINAULT Early movers are going to be external hard drives, cameras and printers. You'll begin to see product...
JEFF RAVENCRAFT How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an ...
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MARCUS AURELIUS You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
MARCUS AURELIUS