Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
Charles Bukowski

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
Pythagoras

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley

Begin with another's to end with your own.
Baltasar Gracian

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
Chief Joseph

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
Richard M. Nixon

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
E. Stanley Jones

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
Pat Riley

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.
Tom Hopkins