Ends Quotes - Page 28

• Is there a chance?
  A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?
  A reason to fight?
  Is there a chance you may change your mind?
  Or are we ashes and wine?

  A Fine Frenzy

  Wine, Fighting, Tunnels

  Song: Ashes and Wine, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

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• If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

  Terence McKenna

  Political, Usual, Agendas

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• The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Fire, Dust, Wind

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• Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

  Simon Bolivar

  Wish, Unions, Lasts

  Simon Bolivar's final proclamation to the people of Colombia (December 8, 1830) as quoted in Thomas Rourke "Man of Glory: Simon Bolivar", 1939.

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• I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

  Carmen Laforet

  Stories, Decay, Goes On

  Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

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• In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Block, War, Europe

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• They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God.’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Character, Office, Pirate

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• The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Law, Trying

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• People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Mean, Blessing, Men

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clever, Men, Rome

  "The Napoleon of Notting Hill". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.

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• 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.

  Bruce Campbell

  Thinking, Answers, Killers

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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• When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

  K. D. Lang

  Thinking, Self, Youth

  "'I'm mistaken for a man every day'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job.

  Jalen Rose

  Running, Jobs, Player

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• The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Age, Flags

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

  Jack Dempsey

  Three, Fighter, Minutes

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• And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

  Dar Williams

  Have Faith

  Song: My Friends, Album: End of the Summer

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• I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

  Carlo Ancelotti

  League, Expecting, Accounts

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• All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

  Tim LaHaye

  Book, People, Secular

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• But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

  Khushwant Singh

  Simple, People, Sound

  Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”, p.129, Penguin Books India

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• I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

  Saint Patrick

  Perseverance, Giving, Faithful

  Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”

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• Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Inspiring, Laughing, Weeping

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• Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of a good courage. Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes. . . . If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Strong, Thinking, Snow

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.353

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• We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.

  Alan Chalmers

  Confused, Levels, Higher

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• I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power source in 25 years.

  Bill Ford

  Believe, Cells, Years

  "The Energy Web" by Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2001.

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• Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Ideas, End Of The World

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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