Top 1200 Dead End Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.

Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.

When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.

You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem

You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Your legal career is but a means to an end, and... that end is building the kingdom of God.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.

Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me.

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?

Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end.

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

There is no beginning and no end in music. Some people want it to end. But it goes on.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

I love films that don't end when they end, that go on in your head a couple of days later.

In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.

For me it doesn't matter if my song is promoted, or if it comes at the end credits of a film, it's my baby at the end of the day.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.

God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

We try to tell these guys that the end of a boxing career isn't the end of their lives: it's the beginning of a new one.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.