End Quotes

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

War would end if the dead could return.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

I usually end up falling for one of my really good guy friends because I know everything about them, and you fall in love with their personalities, and it makes them become attractive to you in your eyes.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

I watched, for the 17th and hopefully the last time, The 'Guns of Navarone' on New Year's Eve. I always watch just in case the explosives don't go off in the end. You have to watch the end, just to make sure it's OK.

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.