Ends Quotes
13717 quotes by 7051 authors
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Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I…
— Albert Einstein
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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic…
— Carl Sagan
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The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either…
— Seneca the Younger
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If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather…
— Lee Iacocca
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Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.
— Fred Allen
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
— H. L. Mencken
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to…
— Maxwell Maltz
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A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
— Ronald Knox
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Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
— Ani DiFranco
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We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
— Seneca the Younger
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere.…
— Medea Benjamin
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring…
— Judith Hand
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The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war…
— Dave Lindorff
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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but…
— Aldous Huxley
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Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our…
— John Hessin Clarke
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Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of natural evolution, for…
— Loraine Boettner
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The end is important in all things.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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