Top 1200 Howards End Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We've gone from one end of the spectrum, where we didn't want children, to the other end where we thought, 'yes, let's try it.'

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

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

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

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

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

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

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

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

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

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

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

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

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

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

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

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

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

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

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

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

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.

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end.

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

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

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.

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.

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

There is only one GC, so whoever does end up with me in the end is a very lucky person.

At the end of the day, it's just a tennis match. It's not the end of the world.

A film set is very casual. If there is a senior actor, by the end of it, you end up joking with him.

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?

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

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

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

The revelation of the secret of water will put an end to all manner of speculation or expediency and their excrescences, to which belong war, hatred, impatience and discord of every kind. The thorough study of water therefore signifies the end of monopolies, the end of all domination in the truest sense of the word and the start of a socialism arising from the development of individualism in its most perfect form.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

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

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

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.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

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

A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it's such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end.

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

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

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

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

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.