Ends Quotes

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

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

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

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.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

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.

If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

Rigging a loudspeaker and a microphone at both ends of a sewer pipe.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

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.