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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they're going, what they're going to say, what the situation is. These things just don't happen and you know that.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.