Top 1200 Odds And Ends Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When a relationship ends, all you can do is play in your head everything that happened between you.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.

No one's built like me. I play 110% on both ends of the floor.

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system.

Physicists have come up with other explanations. One is to say that these six constants are not free to vary. Some unified theory will eventually show that they are as locked in as the circumference and the diameter of a circle. That reduces the odds of them all independently just happening to fit the bill.

I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10.

It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

I'm a great player; I'm one of the best defensive ends in the league, and I honestly think that.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

I've had ups and downs in my career, and if you look at it as a bookmaker, the odds of me becoming a world champion were never in my favour, but I never stopped believing in myself and never stopped trying.

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors. I'm always so appreciative that this has happened for me - and against all odds - as a middle child from Canada. I'm very grateful.

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be.

The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.

The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even when the road ends!

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

If youre going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like Purple Rain and Thriller and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.

Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

Because you're here with me, Jack said. Any night that ends with that can't be that bad

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.