#starts

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#did #difficult #does #good #grow

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#attitude #business #gentleman #him #his

Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early. ↗

— Eddie Arcaro

#get #guy #hard #once #pajamas

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. ↗

— John Wooden

#game #important #starts #who

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it. ↗

— Arleigh Burke

#fight #man #never #other #place

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#been #before #finish #get #i

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#first #history #lie #real #real history

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? ↗

— Peter Brook

#directing #earth #finding #icon #jesus

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#bend #cruel #decide #either #everything

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#could #forget #get #go #grueling