Quotes About Ends

The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

To me, a great company starts with a great product and ends with a great product.

Cultural anger is marshaled to achieve economic ends. And it is these economic achievements—not the forgettable skirmishes of the never-ending culture wars—that are the movement's greatest monuments.

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

You wouldn't like it much anyway," someone replied gently. "Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.

If Acts is paradigmatic, it is not in the area of methods but of goals (the ends of the earth have still not been reached) and of power. The Holy Spirit continues what Jesus began to do, even today.

But the censorship itself admits that it is not an end in itself, that it is not a good in and of itself, that it is therefore based on the principle that "the end sanctifies the means." But an end that needs unholy means is not a holy end.81 Besides, Marx argues, the maxim always works both ways as a justification: if the censorship can plead the goodness of its ends as justification for what it does, then so can the (antigovernmental) press.

Art involves forgetfulness of immediate ends; complete surrender to the inward impulse to give form to the beautiful idea or image of truth because it is beautiful.

Acting Is unlike any other profession in the world. It's a succession of jobs. When 'The Addams Family' ends, however good you may be, when that job ends, you end. My gettng the show was a million-to-one shot.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

We may our ends by our beginnings know.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends

I think I'm a good offensive player, good defensive player. I do it on both ends of the floor.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look

I told you she had an inconsequent mind. That's putting it much too mildly. When it comes to anything like evidence, she hasn't really got a mind at all - she just dives into a sort of lumber-room and brings out odds and ends.

Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins has written: "The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.