Ends Quotes - Page 19

• One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

  Boris Vian

  Inspiration, Musical, Fans

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• It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

  Antonio Carlos Jobim

  Feminine, Difficult

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• Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.

  Bud Selig

  Mean, Clubs, Way

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• Our goal is to go from bright to brighter to brightest, from high to higher to highest. And even in the highest, there is no end to our progress, for God Himself is inside each of us and God at every moment is transcending His own Reality.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Reality, Goal, Progress

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• It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Lying, Men, Choices

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2000). “To Be Human”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

  Herb Ritts

  School, Light, Feelings

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• Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Defeat, Psychological, Victim

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• There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

  Dennis Potter

  Writing, Analysis, Fiction

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  I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

  Cam Newton

  Tunnels, Light, Rejection

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• Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.

  Jonah Goldberg

  The End Of The Day, Likes, Puppy

  "Cynthia McKinney’s Last Stand" by Jonah Goldberg, October 29, 2001.

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• It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Loss, Energy

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, People, The End Of The Day

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• There are two kinds of businesses: The first earns 12%, and you can take it out at the end of the year. The second earns 12%, but all the excess cash must be reinvested - there's never any cash. It reminds me of the guy who looks at all of his equipment and says, 'There's all of my profit.' We hate that kind of business.

  Charlie Munger

  Hate, Years, Two

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• I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.

  Errol Morris

  Real, Believe, Challenges

  "The Museum of Modern Art with Ron Rosenbaum". www.errolmorris.com. Fall, 1999.

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• Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

  Sandra Lee

  Mean, Giving, Missing

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• God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.

  David Platt

  Design, Needs, Earth

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• I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

  C. S. Forester

  Desire, Together, Middle

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• A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Dream, Real, Years

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• When you’re in love you’ll do anything, I’d go to the end of the world.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Love You, World, End Of The World

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• Unless you change direction, you will end up where you are headed.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Where You Are

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• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Lying, Government, People

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• War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

  Philip Berrigan

  War, Terrorism

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• Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Night, Different

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• It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Mean, Matter, Creation

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• A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Trying, Stories

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