Ends Quotes

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

A good thing never ends.

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

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.