Ends Quotes
13717 quotes by 6755 authors
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Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on…
— Robert Southey
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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in…
— Mark Twain
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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as…
— Immanuel Kant
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The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather…
— C. Everett Koop
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O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!
— William Gilbert
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's…
— Sienna Miller
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Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not true. The European…
— Pierce Brosnan
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Our society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest links in our country are our hungry children.…
— Linda Gray
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
— Margaret Mead
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
— Seneca the Younger
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And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive,…
— Pico Iyer
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Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and…
— Rita Rudner
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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never…
— Mark Twain
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
— E L Doctorow
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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
— Bob Black
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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The…
— Eric Hoffer
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Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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