Ends Quotes
13717 quotes by 7051 authors
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite…
— Hannah Arendt
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and…
— Hank Aaron
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
— J. J. Abrams
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning…
— Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more…
— Dido Armstrong
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road…
— Darren Aronofsky
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful…
— Chinua Achebe
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I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done…
— Richard Attenborough
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
— Margaret Atwood
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end…
— Paul Auster
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have…
— Diane Ackerman
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in…
— Sai Baba
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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