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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. -- John Galsworthy
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. -- Anna Quindlen
There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while. -- Bruce Gilden
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. -- Gautama Buddha
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage. -- John Galsworthy
You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one. -- Guy Finley
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree. -- Wallace Stegner
Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility. -- Nicole Ari Parker
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are. -- Terry Pratchett
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed. -- Jeff Lemire
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Every exit is an entrance to someplace else. -- Patti LaBelle
Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life -- Cornelia Connelly
The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them. -- T. E. Lawrence
it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning. -- Julia McNair Wright
There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning. -- Gertrude Stein
It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right. -- Eleanor Porter
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay. -- Jeet Thayil
If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained. -- Merle Shain
Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end. -- Patricia Wentworth
My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with a vital act, beginning and ending with the latter. I believe that there is never any alcoholic fermentation without their being simultaneously the organization, development, multiplication of the globules, or the pursued, continued life of globules which are already formed. -- Louis Pasteur
Hermes rolled his eyesSurely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked-You have to worry about double-parking?Will you let me tell the story?Sorry. -- Rick Riordan
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. -- Oscar Wilde
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. -- Lev Grossman
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. -- George Burns
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. -- Gilda Radner
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. -- Baltasar Gracian
I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader. -- Jeff Lemire
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired. -- Melissa Rosenberg
I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there. -- Kate Atkinson
I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it's physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog. -- Miriam Toews
I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people. -- Don Rickles
It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again. -- Robert Gottlieb
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency. -- Joyce Carol Oates
When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once. -- Alan Moore
Bad beginnings, bad endings. -- Livy
Observe how endings become beginnings. -- Laozi
happy endings start with new beginnings. -- Luanne Rice
Endings are beginnings-if we allow them to be. -- Laura Day
Endings are always the beginnings of something else -- Holly Goldberg Sloan
Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings. -- Joyce Meyer
What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason -- Ayumi Hamasaki
In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings. -- Ellen Hopkins
Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles? -- Julio Cortazar
I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
In His plan there are no true endings. Only everlasting beginnings. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good. -- Elizabeth Chandler
Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise. -- Kim Harrison
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. -- Mitch Albom
Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings. -- Natsuki Takaya
Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings. -- Ann Leckie
Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. -- Sam Shepard
Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings -- Wayne Dyer
I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings. -- Sefi Atta
In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance. -- J. Cole
I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now. -- Anna Akhmatova
She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. -- Sandra Bullock
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. -- Katherine Applegate
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. -- Bob Marley
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. -- Douglas Rushkoff
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. -- Ann Patchett
I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings. -- James Cameron
The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that. -- Robert Goolrick
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings. -- Aidan Chambers
The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached. -- Marianne Williamson

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