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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
Samuel Alexander

Future, Enjoyment, Object

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Samuel Alexander

Life, Through, Practice

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
Cal Thomas

Power, Government, Mind

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
Norman Lear

Leadership, Morality, Greater

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
Norman Lear

Leadership, Spend, Millions

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Time, Hero, Sometimes

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
Hilaire Belloc

Lie, Moment, Talks

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South

Mind, Substances, Unnatural

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
Mike Fitzpatrick

Home, Design, Children

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
Ellen Goodman

Life, Job, Leaving

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Stanislaw Lec

Stupid, Doubt, Himself

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
Richard Eyre

Change, Human, Person

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.
Marcus V. Pollio

Sun, Earth, Less

Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.'
Stacy Keibler

Change, Body, Exercise

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Beverly Sills

Anger, Ends, Folly

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
Faith Hill

Family, Foundation

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Michael Tippett

Poetry, Soon, Changed

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
Armistead Maupin

Life, Real, May

I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
Kathy Mattea

Point, Picture, Process

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
Ed Westwick

Writing, Keep, Until

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Justice, Matter, Move

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
Phillip E. Johnson

God, Dead, Realize

And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?
Stephen Breyer

Money, Business, Person

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
Donna Leon

Care, Between, Fact

Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.
James Fallows

Power, Real, Country

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.
Spencer Bachus

Medical, School, Problem

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair

Maturity, Whole, Whatever

I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
Caprice Bourret

Family, Charity

A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.
Bill Owens

Strong, Economy, Workforce

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
Michael Chabon

Amazing, Book, Two

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