We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
I always tell other actors that work begets work. You never know where your next job is going to lead you, down the road.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
The spirit of gratitude is always pleasant and satisfying because it carries with it a sense of helpfulness to others; it begets love and friendship, and engenders divine influence. Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
... only love begets love.
All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.
A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.
I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.
That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.
This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.
Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
I know that positive energy begets positive energy. I know that when I decide to see the good in something or someone, it's returned to me tenfold.
For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
I think work begets work.
Work begets work. I've always taken the jobs - I've tried to take the jobs where the story is full or the characters are full.
power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.
Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.
The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.
Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.
Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
The common breeds the common,
A lout begets a lout,
So when I take on half a score
I knock their heads about.
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.
Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I’m a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you’ve got nothing to offer.
I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and countless works of art exposing it, when are people going to learn?
Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.
Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
In life, success begets success.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.
Confidence begets confidence.
Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
Courage in danger is half the battle.
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