Quotes About End

Still, KGB staff in Dresden had to scrimp and save to ensure that at the end of their posting they would have something to show for it.

When we first met, we were enemies fighting to end each other. Now as allies, I am confident we can face this new threat together once more.

Boomerang arrow, Kate -- It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it.

To Teach a Lesson Often, stories uncover a gem or life lesson that will only be revealed at the end of the story. With

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach, at the end, the vision with which one started.

In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other. That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose." Book-

One can believe James's claim to an imagination of disaster; so many of his protagonists are unhappy in the end, and yet he gives them an aura of victory. It is because these characters depend on such high degree on their own sense of integrity that for them, victory has nothing to do with happiness. It has more to do with a settling within oneself, a movement inward that makes them whole.

From the moment he'd been elected Speaker in January, John Boehner had insisted that House Republicans had every intention of following through on their campaign pledge to end what he called my "job-crushing spending binge of the last two years.

salvation is not something that happens only at the end of a person's life. Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.

But the wicked have a different head for numbers than most. Any bad they do will end up on the side of never-mind. What's done to them weighs double.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin.

El tiempo cura y nos mata. Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Finally, we pulled into a parking

And then her consummate hatred for the Fairleys, so close to the surface, rose up again and took hold of her, jostling against the grief for prominence in her mind. Was there no end to the pain that family would cause her? Was she to be cursed with them all the days of her life? Damn the Fairleys. All of them. Damn them! Damn them! Damn them! May they rot in hell!

Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....

quality of our past experiences is almost entirely determined by two things: how the experiences felt when they were at their peak (best or worst), and how they felt when they ended. This "peak-end

The expectation that the End Is Near has never done anyone much good, except perhaps the prophecy authors who have made fame and fortune writing about it.

Sometimes death is natural, a mercy that puts an end to suffering. But all too often it comes as an assassin, full of senseless cruelty and lacking any vestige of compassion.

We came from a mystery and it's to a mystery we go.