Quotes on Ends

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.