Ends Quotes - page 48

It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love. (Robert Frost)
When knowledge is the slave of social considerations, it defines a special class; when it serves its own ends only, it no longer does so. View quote
Ernest Gellner
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do. View quote
Josh Homme
Youth is too eager, forth it flings Itself upon exulting wings, Which seek the heaven they ask too near- One wild flight ends the bright career; With broken wing and darkened eye, Earth claims again its own to die. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. The movies are onto the search, but they screw it up. The search always ends in despair. They like to show a fellow coming to himself in a strange place-but what does he do? He takes up with the local librarian, sets about proving to the local children what a nice fellow he is, and settles down with a vengeance. In two weeks time he is so sunk in everydayness that he might just as well be dead. View quote
Walker Percy
... the second time you see something is really thetime. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning. View quote
David Gilmour
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. View quote
John Ruskin
Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. View quote
John Ruskin
It ends. This is the last talk. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The solution, as all thoughtful people recognize, must lie in properly melding the themes of inborn predisposition and shaping through life's experiences. This fruitful joining cannot take the false form of percentages adding to 100-as in "intelligence is 80 percent nature and 20 percent nurture,” or "homosexuality is 50 percent inborn and 50 percent learned,” and a hundred other harmful statements in this foolish format. When two ends of such a spectrum are commingled, the result is not a separable amalgam (like shuffling two decks of cards with different backs), but an entirely new and higher entity that cannot be decomposed. (Stephen Jay Gould)
I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible. View quote
Anna Nicole Smith
I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet. View quote
Tom Jones
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well. View quote
Jennifer Beals
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. View quote
Richard Armitage
Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends. View quote
Harold S. Kushner
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends. View quote
Garrison Keillor
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently. View quote
Jackie Collins
The extent of the region of the uncertain, the number of the problems the investigation of which ends in a verdict of not proven, will vary according to the knowledge and the intellectual habits of the individual agnostic. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
The vain man is in like cause with the avaricious - he takes the mean for the end; forgetting the end he pursues the means for its own sake and goes no further. The seeming to be something, conducive to being it, ends by forming our objective. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
My original essay, having been written for a popular monthly, assumes, for no better reason than that real inquiry cannot begin until a state of real doubt arises and ends as soon as Belief is attained, that "a settlement of Belief," or, in other words, a state of satisfaction, is all that Truth, or the aim of inquiry, consists in. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
Were the ends of a person already explicit, there would be no room for development, for growth, for life; and consequently there would be no personality. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money. View quote
Goldie Hawn