#begin

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. ↗

— Clive Barker

#begins #ever #first #moment #nothing

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #deals #fact #faith #lies

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#backwards #beginning #between #ending #go

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

#begins #character #crawling #curiosity #flesh

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#being #chinese #controlled #feel #gradually

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States. ↗

— Steven Chu

#china #decided #family #grew #however

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. ↗

— Alvin Dark

#forgotten #friendships #game

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#asleep #begins #both #dangerous #down

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ↗

— Theodore White

#become #beginning #corps #correspondents #days

With renunciation life begins. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#life #renunciation