Ends Quotes

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.