Ends Quotes

Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.

The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

My candle burns at both ends

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

KITSIS: What you see at the beginning and think you know is absolutely not what you're going to know at the end.

The farther down the road you go the tougher they get and I live at the end of the road!

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

Of writing many books there is no end.

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.

You never know how a good quest is going to end.

The end crowneth the work.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Money is both a means and a means to an end.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.