A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
V. S. Naipaul

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
Mac Thornberry

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
John Ciardi

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
John Bates Clark

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

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

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson

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

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
George William Curtis

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
Alma Gluck

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Xavier Becerra

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Daisy Berkowitz

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
Marian Anderson

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
Amos Oz

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
Peter Straub

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
Helen Hunt Jackson

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
William Irwin Thompson