Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

- Aravind Adiga

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

- Blake Lively

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

- Ben Stein

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

- Ben Jonson

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

- Ben Bernanke

Begin with another's to end with your own.

- Baltasar Gracian

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

- Arthur Scargill

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

- Ariel Gore

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

- Alan Alda

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

- Alice Hoffman

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

- Alex Kapranos

You really get your sense of women, to begin with, from your mom.

- Albert Hammond, Jr.

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

- Al Roker

Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.

- Ashwin Sanghi

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

- Alphonso Jackson

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

- Alexander Payne

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Alan Alda