Ends Quotes - page 36

The rivalry ends here," [Percy] said. "I love you, Wise Girl. (Rick Riordan)
Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends. View quote
Andrew Weil
We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality. View quote
Richard Meier
The flesh is what traps us, because no one has ever chosen his or her body to live in, has he? It's the flesh that makes us sick, that makes us old and that eventually ends up killing us. But at the same time, it's that glorious flesh that enables us to scratch heaven through sensuality, through passion. Paradoxically, the flesh that kills us will also make us feel eternal for a brief moment because that's what we are in passion, eternal - we abandon ourselves, we give ourselves to the other, so much that when we are loving passionately, death doesn't exist. View quote
Rosa Montero
Unlike animals, with their instincts to guide them past dangers, we humans have to rely upon our conscious decisions. We do the best we can when it comes to our career path and handling the inevitable setbacks in life. But in the back of our minds we can sense an overall lack of direction, as we are pulled this way and that way by our moods and by the opinions of others. How did we end up in this job, in this place? Such drifting can lead to dead ends. The way to avoid such a fate is to develop a sense of purpose, discovering our calling in life and using such knowledge to guide us in our decisions. We come to know ourselves more deeply-our tastes and inclinations. We trust ourselves, knowing which battles and detours to avoid. Even our moments of doubt, even our failures have a purpose-to toughen us up. With such energy and direction, our actions have unstoppable force. View quote
Robert Greene
Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward. View quote
Ruta Sepetys
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard. View quote
Sebastian Barry
If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet. View quote
Suze Orman
But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends. View quote
Ted Dekker
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney. (Famke Janssen)
Then shall it come to pass the saying that is written,” a voice said. "Death is swallowed up. In victory.” Perhaps only Fred heard it. "Because,” the voice said, "as soon as the writing appears backward, then you know which is illusion and which is not. The confusion ends, and death, the last enemy, Substance Death, is swallowed not into the body but up-in victory. Behold, I tell you the sacred secret now: we shall not all sleep in death. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment. View quote
Arielle Ford
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition. View quote
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Historically, means cannot be separated from ends. View quote
Harold Laski
There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends. View quote
Charles Yu
Success is a process that never ends. View quote
Cherie Carter-Scott
My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.' View quote
Shari Arison
Perhaps the writer I've read the most of is Haruki Murakami, the Japanese writer, but I wouldn't necessarily say he's a favourite. I read him because I find his work so intriguing, but I don't necessarily feel I would follow this writer to the ends of the earth. View quote
Shaun Tan
I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness. View quote
Junot Diaz
So it ends As it begins. Off we climb And no one wins. (Adam Roberts)
The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up. View quote
Brian Azzarello
I'm 25 and just trying to understand women. Obviously, that is a process that never ends. View quote
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
Devin had never trusted the priests of Eanna in his whole life. They were too shrewd, by far the most subtle of the clergy, by far the most apt to steer events to their own ends, which might lie out of sight, generations away. Servants of a goddess, he supposed, might find it easier to take the longer view of things. But everyone knew that all across the peninsula the clergy of the Triad had their own triple understanding with the Tyrants from abroad: their collective silence, their tacit complicity, bought in exchange for being allowed to preserve the rites that mattered more to them, it seemed, than freedom in the Palm. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay