In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Truman Capote

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
Christopher Walken

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
Spike Lee

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth Galbraith