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Quotes About Ends

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.
~ Wilferd Peterson
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
~ Ben Jonson
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
There's a lot of storylines over the years where you feel like it's maybe meant to be more important than it ends up being, and that's because we jump ship, and you gracefully extricate yourself from that as well as you can.
~ Julie Plec
The SPF Act is just one of many common sense bills I plan on dropping. This act finally ends the yearly forwards/backwards time-change cycle.
~ Madison Cawthorn
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
~ Saul Alinsky
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
~ Karl Marx
There are invariably many ways to achieve roughly the same technical ends. Technical choices are often highly personal. While shaped by commercial considerations, technical decisions also reflect human values and psychology. Cutler
~ G. Pascal Zachary
This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.
~ Galway Kinnell
each twist of the round spun deeper, because here, Bullet, here is where the world ends, every time.
~ Brian Turner
Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.
~ Howard Zinn
Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.
~ Jonathan Van Ness
A savage awareness seemed to ride the spinning sand, reaching relentlessly past the folds of their telaban, a thousand abrasive fingers clawing paths across their skin. Loose cloth and rope ends spiked upward, whipping with urgent rhythm. The roar filled the air, filled their skulls.
~ Steven Erikson
...to understand infatuation, how the loved person can become a holding pattern for all the tattered ends of memory, experience and thought you've ever had.
~ Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
The power in the Wood isn't some blind hating beast; it can think and plan, and work towards its own ends. It can see into the hearts of men, all the better to poison them.
~ Naomi Novik
anything like her, and that the means mattered as much as the ends, but that wasn't any help; I already knew. I was just angry.
~ Naomi Novik
It's mentally draining to be on 100% of the time on both ends of the floor, especially when you're the team's undisputed shot creator.
~ C. J. McCollum
Means and Ends The purpose of a fish trap Is to catch fish, And when the fish are caught The trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare Is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught The snare is forgotten. The purpose of words Is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped The words are forgotten. Where can I find a man Who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
~ Thomas Merton
The Fundamentalist does not think that the ends can be reached by various means, and that his method is better; if he did, the hostility would not be as serious.
~ Carl F.H. Henry
never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means
~ Immanuel Kant
Agisci in modo da considerare l'umanità, sia nella tua persona, sia nella persona di ogni altro, sempre anche come scopo, e mai come semplice mezzo.
~ Immanuel Kant
Falsehood, ingratitude, injustice, the puerility of the ends which we ourselves look upon as great and momentous… these all so contradict the idea of what men might be if they only would, and are so at variance with our active wish to see them better, that, to avoid hating where one cannot love, it seems but a slight sacrifice to forego all the joys of fellowship with our kind.
~ Immanuel Kant
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
~ Cameron Crowe
But even if all of us meet terrible ends, something happened on that stage tonight that can't be undone. We victors staged our own uprising, and maybe, just maybe, the Capitol won't be able to contain this one.
~ Suzanne Collins