Ends Quotes - page 3

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. (P. L. Travers)
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
Oliver Goldsmith
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. MRS ALLONBY. It ends with Revelations.
Oscar Wilde
Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
The past is a work of art, full of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher Hitchens
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins, which of the two has the grander view.
Victor Hugo
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. (Søren Kierkegaard)
The And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stoln forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare
The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
Aldous Huxley
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.
Isabel Allende
Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment, for even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel Kant
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
John Locke
When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
Albert Einstein
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. (Albert Einstein)
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
Honoré de Balzac
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
Jerome
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
Aubrey de Grey
When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
Herbie Hancock