Top 1200 Ends And Means Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

I want to run the beach's length, because it never ends.

The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

I'm certainly not on a mission to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress, any more than I am just to be able to get roles that are exciting and satisfying to me. If that means action, then that means action.

We rush through this career and it ends abruptly for the most part.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

I believe I fill in every box on both ends of the floor.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. It’s a Nigerian word and it’s from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me, my dad and my mom, and really my dad, and I had no choice in that. That’s my real name and that’s what it means.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

We are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends.

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance.

I am not versed in production software. I have basic knowledge, but it ends there.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

How a kidnapping ends depends to a large degree on who the kidnappers are.

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...

When work ends, I'd rather just be seen as Daniel - normal.

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

I don't even know what that means. People who get credit have to get it from somewhere. Does a credit bubble mean that people save too much during that period? I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.