Begets Quotes

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.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.

When it comes to improv, Specifics beget specifics.

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

Energy begets energy.

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.

Health begets Spirit.

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.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

Success begets more in television.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

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.

Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on.

I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

I know that positive energy begets positive energy.

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.

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

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.

Reading begets reading.

Fortunately work begets work.

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.

Literature usually begets literature.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

In life, success begets success.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love, then this cup is love, then this tavern is love, then this life is love.

God begets love.

Either loyalty and love are same things, or loyalty is certainly a better kind of love than love.