Ends Quotes - Page 3

• Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

  Charles Dickens

  Evil, Unhappy

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.308, Prestwick House Inc

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• Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.

  Tom McGurk

  Sports, Thinking, Crowds

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• Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

  Brande Roderick

  Mean, Vision, Enough

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• Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

  John C. Maxwell

  Determination, Thinking, Remember

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

  Catherine Fisher

  Dream, Wall, Despair

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• I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Father, Law, Wife

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• You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel

  Thomas E. Sniegoski

  Pain, Moving, Past

  Thomas E. Sniegoski (2012). “The Fallen: The Fallen 1; The Fallen 2; The Fallen 3”, p.671, Simon and Schuster

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• We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, Thinking, Feelings

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.272, Penguin

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• Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Mean, Men, Views

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1964). “Signs”, p.77, Northwestern University Press

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• You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to circumvent what was supposed to be – which ultimately was the destruction of the Atlantean pantheon. There was no changing that prophecy. But the way you suffered was completely unnecessary. Had your parents embraced their true destiny, you would have been saved years of torment. Fate will not be denied. We can sculpt it, but in the end we’re all pawns to our final destinies. Good, bad, or indifferent. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Destiny, Years

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• The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.

  Kanye West

  Crazy, Would Be, Bars

  "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

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• I also think if you get sort of early success there's always this part of you which feels like, "I need to address the imbalance, I need to kind of earn that success after the fact". I try to find roles that are hard and also, I still find now, even after I've done loads of really random movies, directors are really surprised that I want to play the parts that I want to play. They just assume that you want to only do the honorable good guy lead who saves the day or dies at the end .

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How much would we give to prevent those horrors? Yet how little are we doing to prevent today's even larger toll and all the misery that it involves? I believe that if you read this book to the end, and look honestly and carefully at our situation, assessing both the facts and the ethical arguments, you will agree that we must act.

  Peter Singer

  War, Believe, Book

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• If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Order, Taste

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better that a baby should die, I believe it should be possible to carry out that decision, not only by withholding or withdrawing life-support - which can lead to the baby dying slowly from dehydration or from an infection - but also by taking active steps to end the baby's life swiftly and humanely.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Believe, Taken

  "Princeton bioethics professor faces calls for resignation over infanticide support" by Jessica Chasmar, www.washingtontimes.com. June 16, 2015.

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• There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.

  Bill Walsh

  Real, Team, Organization

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• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Crazy, Exercise

  Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

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• To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

  Stephen Covey

  Mean, Understanding, Mind

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Helping Others, Boss, Levels

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• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Frustration, Men

  'The Statue and the Bust' (1863 revision) l. 246

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• The whole end of speech is to be understood.

  Confucius

  Chinese, Speech, Understood

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.

  Robert Monroe

  Coaching

  Robert Monroe (2014). “The Ultimate Journey”, p.205, Harmony

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• Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be done in five days, perhaps less; and a younger generation will make a new route on the west face.

  Royal Robbins

  Climbing, Accomplishment, Doe

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• At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

  Eric Jay Beck

  Lying, Climbing, Class

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• You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They just keep coming with more questions - why, why, why? - until you don't even know who the fk you are anymore at the end of the conversation. It's an insane deconstruction.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Fatherhood, Insane

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