Quotes About End

We tend to think the Old Testament ends with the book of Malachi. But Luke 16:16 says, "The law and the prophets were until John," which means that while the final official book of the Old Testament is Malachi, the period of the Old Testament ends with John the Baptist as the last of the prophets under the Law.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journeys end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Só não inicio pelo fim que justificaria o começo – como a morte parece dizer sobre a vida – porque preciso registrar os fatos antecedentes.

The end is just another beginning when a Mother is in charge of the world.

The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

The first paragraph is the arrow. The last paragraph is the target.

The middle of the sentence had already left the beginning of the sentence lost in the distance, and the end of the sentence was slower to arrive than a school holiday.

Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

The absolute, immutable, and inviolable supremacy of that will of God is the light which special revelation holds before our soul's eye at the end of time.

science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the needs of the human heart.

The sun set without pomp—it just got dark.

The isolated, self-sufficient nature of speculation spoke to his character and was a source of wonder and an end in itself, regardless of what his earnings represented or afforded him. Luxury was a vulgar burden.

When life is so burdensome, death has become for man a sought-after refuge.

At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle be sparing.

But at what price? What would she have to block out, just to go from one day to the next? You'll never understand the choice I've had to make. Either way, her life is over. Living like that; or prison. It's the end. Either one will break her.

Todos os rios correm para o mar, e o mar não se enche.

Every journey ends; terminates, at some pier, some mist-shrouded wharf, where torches are waiting.