Ends Quotes

But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.

The end...is just the beginning

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

The end of the world begins the moment you die.

The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

Holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!

I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.

I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

I'm 25 and just trying to understand women. Obviously, that is a process that never ends.

I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you’ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.

In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make.

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.

You've got to be careful against classy fighters, especially counter-punchers because if you go for the finish too early, you can end up getting finished yourself.

In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.

What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.

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.