Quotes about ends

Pythagoras -

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Benjamin Franklin -

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Elizabeth Gaskell - My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.

Deyth Banger -

(There are so many If's like Why's, why there, if there... but why?? Look again I say this word!)Why do we ask questions which we aren't interested in real like "How are you", you answer, then the other "Oh, I'm also well" or "Why??", so, so, so and that's all... Then he says that, that and that and that's all so it's not about communicating as far as for sharing?? Am I right??A lot of people use "If"...But I still don't get why people say "Building" in case the action has finished, it must be s

Io Sakisaka -

When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.

Shannon L. Alder -

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

Gugu Mona -

Where the human knowledge ends, God's wisdom and power begins to manifest in abundance.

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan

COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of blossoming; here and there among the shadowed boughs one flower had opened early, rose and white, like a faint star. Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running; hearing the call she did not come at once, but made a long circle before she turned her face toward home. The mother waiting in the doorway of the hut, with the firelight behind her,

Shannon L. Alder -

Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

Shannon L. Alder -

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.

C. JoyBell C. -

Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending.

Chelsea Sedoti - The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

Enzo thought ends were disappointing. He said when you were really immersed in a story, you started to have expectations. And the end was never as great as you imagined it could have been. Even though I mostly agreed with him, I couldn't help wanting to know everything. I was always looking for more.

Jeffrey Fry -

Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened.

Hanif Kureishi - The Nothing

I am dust and my story ends here.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!

Immanuel Kant -

Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself.

Steven Pinker - How the Mind Works

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

William Barrett - The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

Franz Kafka -

The meaning of life is that it ends

Walter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle for Leibowitz

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

Herman Melville - The Whale

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Zia Haider Rahman -

I wasn’t as untrusting. I had faith in the goodness of people, the perfection of love.What happened?Everything ends. And it’s how they end that leaves the lasting effect.

Josh Stern - And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends

Deyth Banger -

One... moment you think it's the end. But it isn't, it's just the beginning.

Fredrich Von Bernhardi -

The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge -

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Charles Caleb Colton -

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

Herbert Hoover -

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Benjamin Disraeli -

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Robert Frost -

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Francis Hutcheson -

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

Mason Cooley -

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Albert Camus -

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton -

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship – never.

William Shenstone -

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

Will Durant -

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Thomas Merton -

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Walter Gropius -

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Idries Shah - Reflections

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for the purpose of enjoyment and pleasure, but also the human general survival. Whilst homosexuality is the freedom of enjoyment and pleasure from any means and ends.

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