Ends Quotes

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.

I think it’s more like a shirt that says, ‘I’m going to have to end this date early so I can go prepare my Power Point presentation

Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.

Think positive girl, or the world ends.

Sometimes things don't end okay.

I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.

[Tony Richardson ] just liked me, knew I was going to be what he wanted [in The Hotel New Hampshire], and that was the end of it. It was unbelievable.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

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In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

When pain ends, gain ends too.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

End is a gloomy word.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips.