Top 1200 Odds And Ends Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

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

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

Kastellorizo is where Europe ends and Asia begins, and its history is fascinating.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

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

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

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

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

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

I do a lot of styling on my hair, and my ends can look really sad.

Health will improve almost at once when worrying ends.

The public is often right during the trends, but wrong at both ends

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

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

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they'd be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today's identical twins.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

My son's baby paraphernalia always ends up in my bag.

When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

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

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

People's perception sometimes ends up being the reality.

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

My knowledge of popular music more or less ends in 1972.

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

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

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

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

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

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

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

Women are very good at judging the risk and don't want to waste time with losing. So not that they're not as competitive, and certainly once they're in the race they're every bit as competitive, but they make that choice to compete in a more calculated way sensitive to the odds.

Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't even wear skirts,' I snap at him. 'Especially,' he says, 'in my daydreams.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

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

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

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

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

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

We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

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

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.