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Ends Quotes by George Orwell
- There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
- Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
- She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard…
- Power is not a means; it is an end.
- Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,…
- What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
- The end was contained in the beginning.
- We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone…
- The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty,…
- For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable…
- High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those…
More Ends Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky