Ends Quotes - Page 26

• Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

  Robyn Davidson

  Camels, Form, Mere

  Robyn Davidson (1995). “Tracks”, Vintage

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• One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch.

  Peter Alliss

  Rain, Scotch, Scotland

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• Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

  Adrian Tan

  Long, Trying, Life Is

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• A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!

  Berton Braley

  Prepositions, Sentences

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• If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air-conditioning systems or computers, etc. This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and and reduce society's dependence on fossil energies.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Night, Air, Motor Vehicles

  "Solar-powered plane reaches new heights". CNN interview, edition.cnn.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Stars, Rocks, Stones

  Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the more difficult and costly responsibility of submitting ourselves to those deeper changes of disposition and outlook which are in the end a much more powerful revolutionary force.

  J. H. Oldham

  Powerful, Responsibility, Cutting

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• I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

  Frank Lentricchia

  Real, Eye, People

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• The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

  George Saintsbury

  Artist, Giving, Transition

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.209, tredition

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• The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Running, Perseverance, Hero

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.188

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• Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.

  Basilea Schlink

  Running, Jesus, Fall

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• In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have.

  Derek Sivers

  Want, What You Want

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• And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Quotation Marks, Upside Down, This Life

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• I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Believe, Men, World

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• L I K E is like a bunch of dandelion seeds falling beautifully on the ground. It's a soft and good feeling but can come and go at any time
  L O V E is when those same dandelion seeds become firmly rooted sowing its seeds and growing another dandelion on the spot. It takes a lot of energy to grow the dandelion like protecting it from the wind and giving it water and sunlight but it becomes very precious and beautiful in the end

  Seohyun

  Beautiful, Fall, Wind

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• At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

  Delta Burke

  New York, Hollywood, Firsts

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• At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

  Victor Cruz

  People, The End Of The Day, Want

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• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  Victor Cruz

  Athlete, Past, Normal

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• At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

  John T. Flynn

  Running, Russia, Hands

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• But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Government, People, Trying

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• Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

  Herman Kahn

  Believe, People, Sometimes

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.17, Lexington Books

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• It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

  Nia Vardalos

  Trying, Actors, Flyers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.

  Sue Wicks

  Money, Play, Careers

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• For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

  Sue Wicks

  Team, Games, Play

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• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  Edward Bloor

  Lonely, Unique, Earth

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