Quotes About End

Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.

Dijkstra almost laughs: The droid sounds offended—or eager to be offended. So he just says, "Well, I guess we're all rivals in the end, aren't we? Competition makes the world go 'round.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Come to a rousing end. End in style, with flair or a flourish.

Das Leben war eine Ansammlung von Fluren, die man entlangging, ohne zu wissen, was für Räume an ihrem Ende lagen.

In the end it had all been too simple, too easy. But I feared my good fortune.

Me he instalado en esta ciudad para esperar en ella el fin del mundo.

I began my comedy as its only actor, and I come to the end of it as its only spectator.

Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido, me voy

Saber morir cuesta la vida.

La vita è un cerchio. C'è un giorno in cui il cerchio si chiude, e noi non sappiamo quale.

Send all fools from the earth to another planet, withing a few seconds all activities of this world will come to an end.

It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.

When one expects to go on "forever" as one does in one's youth or even middle age, horizons are merely limits, not yet ends. It is when one first sees the horizon as an end that one first begins to see.

After 'the war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a "Peace to end Peace.

Most people give little enough real thought to their own mortality. Oh yes, they gabble on about heaven and the bosom of Abraham, but really, they are weary of life almost from the time they're born, and are only waiting for it all to end. They live their days quietly, obscurely, and underneath their daily toils, they long for oblivion.

And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.

First, have a definite, clear practical idea; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude. . . . Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions. Hence the incidents and the plot are the end of a tragedy; and the end is the chief thing of all.

Now ends clearly differ from one another. For, firstly, in some cases the end is an act, while in others it is a material result beyond and besides that act. And, where the action involves any such end beyond itself, this end is of necessity better than is the act by which it is produced.

Now there are two ways in which fire outside the body can, as we see, come to an end, namely, exhaustion and extinction. By exhaustion we mean that termination which is produced by the fire itself; by extinction, that which is produced by the contraries of fire.