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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.
I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.
The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.
I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.
The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.
At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.
I now believe in God for my own ends. I'm not an altruistic Christian - I'm only doing it in case there is in fact a Heaven.
I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.
Where your life ends, your being doesn’t. Where your being ends, you don’t. That is what is able to have and move your forms.
Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.
I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.
One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.
Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.
You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.
Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.
I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, "Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking."
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.
I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.
Some days it don't come easy Some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all And these are the days that never end
I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got...
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out the other end.
What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.
There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?