End Quotes - page 8

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. (Sidney Sheldon)
When annual elections end, there slavery begins. View quote
John Adams
Charity begins at home, but should not end there. View quote
Thomas Fuller
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. View quote
Kofi Annan
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he. View quote
William Hazlitt
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. View quote
Graham Greene
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go. View quote
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. View quote
Ayn Rand
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. (Martin H. Fischer)
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end. View quote
Primo Levi
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. View quote
Karel Čapek
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. View quote
Karel Čapek
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. View quote
Karel Čapek
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
The beauty of things must be that they end. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. (Edmund Burke)
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficultyto keep heart when all have lost it to go through intrigue spotlessto forego even ambition when the end is gained who can say this is not greatness. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season. View quote
Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. View quote
Robert Frost
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed. View quote
John Rawls