T Quotes
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“The end of one chapter is often the threshold of another, far more radiant than we imagine… The end of one chapter is often not an ending at all, but the threshold of another, far more radiant.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage.”
“The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.”
Source: How to Ruin a Summer Vacation
“The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.”
“The end of pain we take as happiness.”
Source: Leopardi: Poems and Prose
“The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.”
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.”
Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.”
“The end of racism starts with the recognition of racism.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“The end of reading is not more books but more life.”
“The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.”
“The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.”
“The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.”
“The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry in many ways, tragic event even though I participated in it and played some role in it. But I regret a lot of that.”
“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself.”
“The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different.”
“The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?”
“The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.”
“The end of the Austrian state brought violence against Austrian Jews in five weeks that was comparable to the suffering that German Jews had endured under Hitler over the course of five years. The organisers in Austria were usually Nazis, but they were operating in conditions of state collapse that allowed their revolution to proceed further and faster.”
Source: Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.”
“The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature”
Source: Don't Waste Your Life
“The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?”
“The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.”
“The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.”
“The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this country, especially in its more exact departments. Mathematics were at the last gasp, and astronomy nearly so; I mean in those members of its frame which depend upon precise measurement and systematic calculation. The chilling torpor of routine had begun to spread itself over all those branches of Science which wanted the excitement of experimental research.”
“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
“The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders.”
“The end of the play is kind of the beginning.”
“The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.”
“The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.”
“The end of the road
is the beginning
of the wild unknown.”
Source: Drive Through the Night
“The ‘end of the road’ is too often confused with the exit ramp of our impatience.”
“The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.”
“The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn't work that way. It can't. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop.”
“The end of the story was already written to begin, as it must be when using virtualization (think digitalization via computer simulation) and that is the light, which has already won. That is why it is good to be alive. It was designed that way, naturally.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.”
“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky, seeing a far light on the horizon. Many lights had died in the windy dark but far down the road there was always a gleam, and it was as if a legend had been created to express some obscure truth that could not otherwise be stated. Everything had changed, the war and the men and the land they fought for, but the road ahead had not changed. It went on through the trees and past the little towns and over the hills, and there was no getting to the end of it. The goal was a going-towards rather than an arriving, and from the top of the next rise there was always a new vista. The march toward it led through wonder and terror and deep shadows, and the sunlight touched the flags at the head of the column.”
Source: A Stillness at Appomattox
“The end of the war was not celebrated in the Socialist Standard...The four year's madness had shown the so-called socialists of the world in their true colours: Kautsky, Jack London, the advocates of international brotherhood everywhere had chosen nationalism and militarism in the hour of trial.The ILP in Britain had rejected the war, but its association with the Labour Party deprived it of all credit in the eyes of the SPGB.The members who had come through the war were confirmed as never before in the belief that they,and no one else, held the truth and menaced the system.”
“The end of the world begins in the sea we love.”
“The end of the world begins the moment you die.”
“The end of the world does not require our recognition,
only our quiet acceptance.”
Source: Push and Pull
“The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.”
“The end of the world is approaching, maybe by the year 2010.”
“The end of the world is easy. We'll survive it, or we won't. But if we do survive, the rest of life is waiting.”
Source: Cast in Chaos
“The end of the world is not an event to come, it is an event of psychological transformation, of visionary transformation. You see not the world of solid things but a world of radiance.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.”