T Quotes
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“The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.”
Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.”
Source: The prophecies of Joanna Southcott, relating to the dreadful judgments that will fall on this nation in the present year, 1810. Selected and animadverted on by R. Hann
“The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.”
“The end of all worship leading is worship living. We must live our worship if we expect others to live their own worship.”
“The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.”
“The end of an delusion is invariably sadness or tears”
“The end of an era marks the beginning of a new.
Consider challenges as chances. To grow. To build. To live. For the better. To create something great, you wouldn't have imagined in advance.
There are no such things as bad experiences. There are only possibilities to learn.
Take risks. Throw away the doubts. You're young. Your whole life, it's all ahead of you, even though you like to let yourself be told otherwise, preferably from yourself. All the months of May you've already lived are nothing compared to how you're perceived or to how you feel. You're young. You're allowed to make mistakes: so be brave and make mistakes! Cast away your doubts and take the chances that spin around your head like satellites even though you like to tell yourself otherwise.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.”
“The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.”
“The end of art is peace.”
Source: Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978
“The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.”
“The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.”
“The end of childhood is when you realise that adults have no idea what the hell they're doing”
Source: The Yearbook
“The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.”
“The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.”
“The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.”
“The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.”
“The end of culture is right living”
“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.”
“The end of desire is the end of sorrow.”
“The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.”
“The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.”
“The end of economic disparity will not take place magically out of some fancy diplomatic and political whim. It'll require radical changes to the very mindset of the human population, which will further lead to changes in their lifestyle, that in turn will lead to a society with integrity, stability and character. It is this simple, discard luxury and practice simplicity.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“The End of Education as We Know It is both fierce and practical —a toolkit for creating regenerative schools from the ground up. Whether you’re a classroom teacher or an education policymaker, this book will equip you with methods and strategies to disrupt outdated assumptions, foster humanity in learning, and embrace the complexity of both children and the world they inhabit. This book is not about tepid tweaks and timid reforms. More boldly, Florez calls for an entirely new way of doing school, one that aligns with the demands of the world our kids will own.”
Source: When Kids Rule the School: The Power and Promise of Democratic Education
“The end of education is character”
Source: Education in human values
“The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.”
“The end of everything was at hand; it seemed to him he could stretch out his arm and touch the goal. But he wanted to die at home — to extend himself in the large quiet room where he had last seen his father lie, and close his eyes upon the summer dawn.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“The end of exile is the end of being.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.”
“The end of government is the happiness of the people.”
“The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.”
Source: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
“The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.”
“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
Source: Two treatises of government
“The end … of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him.”
Source: Of Education
“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”
“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.”
“The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.”
Source: Strength to Love
“The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.”
“The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“The end of love looks like the beginning of war”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.”
“The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.”
Source: Margins of Philosophy
“The end of man is action.”
“The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?”
“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
Source: All the King's Men
“The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!”
“The end of my marriage meant the end of fighting for something I believed in: my commitment to God to stay faithfully married until death, no matter the circumstances.”
Source: You Can Survive Divorce: Hope, Healing, and Encouragement for Your Journey
“The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.”
“The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.”
Source: The Thought of Mahatma Gandhi: A Digest