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“In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.”
“In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.”
Source: The Illusion of Separateness
“In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.”
“in the end, I found that the proportions obtaining in Colebrooke (British Orientalist, d. 1837)’s 1818 donation to the India Office Library generally held up. Out of a total of some twenty thousand manuscripts listed in these catalogs on Yoga, Nyaya Vaisheshika, and Vedanta philosophy, a mere 260 were Yoga Sutra manuscripts (including commentaries), with only thirty five dating from before 1823 ; 513 were manuscripts on Hatha or Tantric Yoga, manuscripts of works attributed to Yajnavalkya, or of the Yoga Vasistha; 9,032 were Nyaya manuscripts, and 10,320 were Vedanta manuscripts.
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What does this quantitative analysis tell us ? For every manuscript on Yoga philosophy proper (excluding Hatha and Tantric Yoga) held in major Indian manuscript libraries and archives, there exist some forty Vedanta manuscripts and nearly as many Nyaya Vaisheshika manuscripts. Manuscripts of the Yoga Sutra and its commentaries account for only one third of all manuscripts on Yoga philosophy, the other two thirds being devoted mainly to Hatha and Tantric Yoga. But it is the figure of 1.27 percent that stands out in highest relief, because it tells us that after the late sixteenth century virtually no one was copying the Yoga Sutra because no one was commissioning Yoga Sutra manuscripts, and no one was commissioning Yoga Sutra manuscripts because no one was interested in reading the Yoga Sutra. Some have argued that instruction in the Yoga Sutra was based on rote memorization or chanting : this is the position of Krishnamacharya’s biographers as well as of a number of critical scholars. But this is pure speculation, undercut by the nineteenth century observations of James Ballantyne, Dayananda Saraswati, Rajendralal Mitra, Friedrich Max Müller, and others. There is no explicit record, in either the commentarial tradition itself or in the sacred or secular literatures of the past two thousand years, of adherents of the Yoga school memorizing, chanting, or claiming an oral transmission for their traditions.
Given these data, we may conclude that Colebrooke’s laconic, if not hostile, treatment of the Yoga Sutra undoubtedly stemmed from the fact that by his time, Patanjali’s system had become an empty signifier, with no traditional schoolmen to expound or defend it and no formal or informal outlets of instruction in its teachings. It had become a moribund tradition, an object of universal indifference. The Yoga Sutra had for all intents and purposes been lost until Colebrooke found it.”
Source: The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography
“In the end, I guess mom was right. I have one foot in winter and one in spring. One foot with the living, and one with the dead.”
Source: City of Ghosts
“In the end, I guess that once we leave home, we can never truly return back ever quite the same again. At least, I know that’s true for me.”
Source: The Ambassador's Wife
“In the end I have to hold myself accountable...I had to make a change if I really wanted to reach the goals I had set for myself. I had to get out of being comfortable and get into a situation that was going to really push me.”
“In the end, I listen to my fear. It keeps me awake, resounding through the frantic beating in my breast. It is there in the dry terror in my throat, in the pricking of the rats’ nervous feet in the darkness. Christian has not come home all the night long. I know, for I have lain in this darkness for hours now with my eyes stretched wide, yearning for my son’s return.”
Source: Sinful Folk
“In the end, I loved the world, so I remained in the world.”
Source: Dead Astronauts
“In the end, I'm not interested in that which I fully understand. The words I have written over the years are just a veneer. There are truths that lie beneath the surface of the words... truths that rise up without warning, like the humps of a sea monster and then disappear. What performance and song is to me is finding a way to tempt the monster to the surface, to create a space, where the creature can break through what is real and what is known to us. This shimmering space, where imagination and reality intersect... this is where all love and tears and joy exist. This is the place. This is where we live.”
“In the end I realised that it was the heart, the Indian heart that Vikram had talked about—the land where heart is king—that held me when so many intuitions told me I should leave.”
Source: Shantaram
“In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“In the end, I realized that the things in life that I valued most—family, friends, integrity—weren't contingent on business outcomes and couldn't be taken away from me no matter what. Framed that way, all the challenges and risks of running a business were imminently more manageable. In that formulation, the riskiest proposition of all is to lose sight of who I was. To betray myself was the only way to truly fail. And for that reason, I left—with nothing but with everything.”
Source: The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
“In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever.”
“In the end, I think certain things are so successful because people love to have something to badmouth.”
“In the end I think change really does begin at home, at the dinner table, in a conversation, in split seconds, in quit determined moments.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“In the end I think change really does begin at home, at the dinner table, in spit seconds, in quiet determined moments.”
Source: Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
“In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice”
“In the end, I walked myself here. And if ‘here’ is not the place that I wanted to be, blaming others for walking me here won’t do anything to walk me out of here.”
“In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.”
“In the end, I was always there for myself.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“In the end, I will become the ghost I always feared. When the fire I kindled in my mind reaches my heart, I will start turning everyone I meet to ashes. So, I speak less and less, withdrawing more and more from the outside world. I navigate a realm that seems devoid of other human beings. I have become isolated in my mind, knowing that I will no longer encounter others, even in my thoughts. I love the solitude, so far below, so far away from life...”
“In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.”
Source: The Lost Garden
“In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone.”
“In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.”
Source: Geek Love: A Novel
“In the end I would rather wonder than know”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.”
“In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.”
“In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.”
“In the end I'm the only one who knows me”
“In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
“In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.”
“In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.”
“In the end is my beginning.”
“In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.”
“In the end, it all comes down to 0 and 1”
“In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.”
Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some
“In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.”
“In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...”
“In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot - and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.”
“In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.”
“In the end, it came down to tea and talking just as much as bullets and butchery.”
Source: Afghanistan: The End of the U.S. Footprint and the Rise of the Taliban Rule
“In the end it comes down to two rival versions of the English middle afternoon. Post-Barrett, Pink Floyd kept on in a middle-afternoonish vein, but they fell in love with the idea of portentous storm clouds in the offing somewhere over Grantchester....Barrett's afternoonishness was far more supple and engaging. It superimposed the hippie cult of eternal solstice on the pre-teatime daydreams of one's childhood, occasioned by a slick of sunlight on a chest of drawers....His afternoonishness is lit by an importunate adult intelligence that can't quite get back to the place it longs to be....Barrett created the same precocious longing in adolescents.
"I remember 'See Emily Play' drifting across a school corridor in 1967...and I remember the powerful wish to stay suspended indefinitely in that music...I also remember the quasi-adult intimation that this wasn't possible.
[from the London Review of Books for January 2, 2003]”
“In the end, it doesn't even matter.”
“In the end, it doesn’t matter, but I wanted you to know; I needed you to know because I read your text to Sarah. You told her I was everything you never thought you could have, and I’m telling you, you’re everything I never knew I wanted, but I’m so glad you’re here.”
Source: Hailey's Truth
“In the end it doesn't matter if this creature is really our mother. We feed it things and tell it about our problems. It's still all about us.”
“In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.”
“In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.”
Source: Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life
“In the end, it is not about winning or losing; it is about living.”
“In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.”