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3,982. Spaceship Earth may return to its tumultuous beginnings. (Earth & Beginning) The Universe: Spaceship Earth
6,912. The beginning. The beginning of my prime. (Teacher & Beginning) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie I ***** starring Geraldine McEwan & Amanda Kirby & Lynsey Baxter & Vivienne Ross et al
23,748. The beginning is a very delicate time. (Science Fiction Films & Beginning) Dune 1984 starring Kyle MacLachlan & Francesca Annis & Kenneth McMillan & Sting & Everett McGill & Sean Young & Max von Sydow & Patrick Stewart & Dean Stockwell & Sian Phillips & Paul Smith et al, director David Lynch, opening scene
26,529. The Germans have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. (World War II & Winston Churchill & Beginning & End) Winston Churchill, speech London 9th November 1942
64,990. There must be a beginning to any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. (Begin & End & Glory) Francis Drake, letter to Francis Walsingham 17th May 1587
64,991. To have begun is half the job: be bold and be sensible. Homer, Epistles
64,992. Look with favour upon a bold beginning. Virgil
64,993. The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato
64,994. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. Seneca
64,995. This is the beginning of the end. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, attributed
64,996. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a simple step. Lao Tzu
64,997. So many fail because they don’t get started - they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin. (Begin & Fail) W Clement Stone
64,998. My way is to begin with the beginning. Lord Byron, Don Juan
64,999. ‘Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?’ he asked. ‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’ Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
65,000. He who knows I am beginningless, unborn, the Lord of all the worlds, this mortal is free from delusion, and from all evils he is free. Bhagavad Gita, Krishna’s Dialogue on the Soul 10:3
65,001. Beginnings are always troublesome … Even [Thomas] Macaulay’s few pages of introduction to his Introduction in the English History are the worst bit of writing in the book. George Eliot
65,002. In the beginning is my end. (Beginning & End) T S Eliot, Four Quartets ‘East Coker’
65,003. What we call the begining is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. (Beginning & End) ibid. ‘Little Gidding’
65,004. The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first. Blaise Pascal, Pensees 1670
65,005. When they begin the Beguine
It brings back the sound of music so tender,
It brings back a night of tropical splendour,
It brings back a memory ever green. Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine 1935 song
65,526. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise. (Bold & Begin & Wisdom) Horace
84,211. To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black. Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
65,667. The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible. (Brevity & Preach & Beginning & End) George Burns
40,154. Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin. (Football & Begin) Chris Kamara