No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.
'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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.
That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.
We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Each book first begins with a little idea.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A. is required to publish a list of 'stationary sources' of air pollution, of which the most important are power plants.
Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.