(448 quotes found)
“Once more the engine of her thoughts began. . . .”
William Shakespeare
“But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.”
W. H. Auden
“I know something about Mr. Khrushchev. ...Mr. Khrushchev himself, it is said, told the story about the Russian who began to run through the Kremlin shouting, 'Khrushchev is a fool, Khrushchev is a fool.' He was sentanced, he said, to twenty-three years in prison: three for insulting the party secretary, and twenty for revealing a state secret.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
Camille Paglia
“Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.”
Carolyn Warner
“For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.”
Jean Marie Cardinal Lustiger
“From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.”
Dirk Benedict
“There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.”
Carly Fiorina
“And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; / And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse: / But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.”
Bible
“By education most have been misled; so they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, and thus the child imposes on the man.”
John Dryden
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