Ends Quotes

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever.

There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

Would you end war? Create great Peace.

Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

The good thing about me is I just don't shop high-end.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous.

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

All's well if all ends well.

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!