End Quotes - page 4

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
Bolesław Prus
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Theodor Adorno
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
Georg Büchner
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
Lucian Freud
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Thornton Wilder
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Ezra Pound
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Leonard Nimoy
Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke
Where is the beginning of the end that comes at the end of the beginning?
Kozma Prutkov
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
Livy
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William Penn
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
Helen Hayes
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not the color, but to accept God's final decision on where your lips end. (Jerry Seinfeld)
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Iris Murdoch
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Edward Albee
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Donald Trump
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
Coretta Scott King