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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

We have three tremendous tight ends in Christianson, Casper, and Chester.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

The ends must justify the means.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.