If we truly believe that we are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ, our actions would begin to reflect that belief.
Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
When Bob Dylan was a beginning fellow, Len Chandler, a black singer-musician who played a 12-string guitar, was a friend of his.
Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.
The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending.
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
It won't do to be afraid of failure. Failure is the mother of success; a long journey begins from the ground beneath his feet.
There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
Dreams begin when you stop to pick up the penny - you realize the continual effort you must endure to have something worth obtaining.
Having appeared at the end of the first creation, man [and women] stand at the beginning of the second, since the world is transfigured through [them].
Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
Water. I'm at a loss, I begin to miss someone I've never even met yet, I can feel them, Circling, In pain.
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
