Beginningest Quotes & Sayings

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it. — Gregory Bateson

Art is too important a term to be used just for painters. And sculptors. And playwrights. And actors. And architects of a certain type. No, I think we need to broaden it to graphic designers and salespeople and bosses. To lay preachers, to gifted politicians and occasionally, to the guy who sweeps the floor. Art is a human act, something that's done with the right sort of intent. Art is when we do work that matters, in a creative way, in a way that touches them and changes them for the better.[1] Seth Godin, Graceful — Emily P. Freeman

I would believe again if I could. In goodness. In magnificence. In simple benevolence. Yet even in these far and icy valleys, mankind is no different, just more poorly armed. Strip away psychrometer and sextant, carbines and glass plates, skin shifts and quills and painted faces, and we are the same. Quivering maws. Gluttonous. Covetous. Fearful. We say we worship. A word. A man-god. A fiery mountain. But we worship only ourselves. And we are jealous gods. — Eowyn Ivey

I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after being brought up from earth. I think there are such better uses for that money that i seriously question the ethics of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on space flights for extremely wealthy people. — Arthur Frommer

We do fall away from faith. God's grace gives us strength to rise again. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it. — Yanni

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. — John Maynard Keynes

Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then. — Debra Robinson

The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. — Sylvia Plath

Always seek advise from people who are already living your dreams — Bo Sanchez

Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth. — Martin Rees

The Acceptance of who you are is in the embrace of who you will become. — Ricky Maye

Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into the language. And the particular magic of homeland, its particular spell over irie, was that it sounded like a beginning. The beginningest of beginnings. Like the first morning of Eden and the day after apocalypse. A blank page. (p.332) — Zadie Smith