
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
Source: Keeping Faith
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
Commonly attributed to Twain in computer contexts and post-2000 inspirational books — the first sentence has also been attributed to Agatha Christie and Sally Berger.
Misattributed
“To end the humiliation was a start, but to end poverty is a bigger task.”
1960s, Address to Local 815, Teamsters and the Allied Trades Council (1967)
Context: Today Negroes want above all else to abolish poverty in their lives and in the lives of the white poor. This is the heart of their program. To end the humiliation was a start, but to end poverty is a bigger task. It is natural for Negroes to turn to the labor movement because it was the first and pioneer anti-poverty program….
“The task facing ARAs is daunting: we must empty the cages, not make them larger.”
Source: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 4
“It's too late to start over, this is the only thing I know”
"Guts Over Fear" (2014)
2010s
“And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.”
Source: Boys "R" Us