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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.
The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
The world ends when I die. And as far as I'm concerned, the rest of the universe might as well call it a day too.
God will come into your plans. But the choice is yours whether you allow Him to begin it, or force Him to end it.
Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.
The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.
Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.
Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
It's not what you do, but HOW you do it. Because in the end everyone knows almost as much, just not the same way.
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
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.
If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.
How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.
I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.
It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.
The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.
In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.
He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole.
It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.
I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season, ... If I can play every day, the numbers will come.
I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.
Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.
My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.