Ends Quotes

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.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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.

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.