There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
Thor Heyerdahl

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.
Marlo Thomas

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Kofi Annan

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace

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

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

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.
David Brin

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

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

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
William Ames

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.
Tim Conway

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
Robert Fitzgerald

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

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
William Law

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