Best built & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.”

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Author:Scarlett Thomas

“You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that any more, well you know, there you go. Trust was broken.”

Knows World Wells Ends This World Broken Honor Built Reputation The End Of The Day

Author:George Tenet

“The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians...”

Knows Years Wells Ends Strong Built International Palestinian Consensus Incomplete Apartheid

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.”

“Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.”

Years Ends Reality Levels Stage Products Couple Built Management Rose Including Marketing Loyalty Users Fades Versus Microsoft

Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

“I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.”

People Knows Ends Together Desire Results Car Design Built Competition Designer End Results Horsepower

Author:Carroll Shelby

“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.”

Mean Ends Turns Goal Wealth Economy Fashion Industry Built Machines Productions Scales Goods Leisure Devoted Consumption Replaced Expansion Output Obsolescence

Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY

Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY

“I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.”

Needs Mean Littles Ends Difficult Industry Built Connections Fortune Significant Sincere Exceptional Seriousness Disparity Triviality

Book:The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.”

Ends Stories Three Process Perfect Painting Built Depth Unconscious Pathways Dreamworks

Author:Billy Cannon

“Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.”

Ifs Art Two Ends Knowing Plans Danger Becoming Art Is Built Experiments Crafts Obsessed Experimental Science

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“The people who are working, paying their taxes are put into the system so that affordable housing could be built in neighborhoods that they probably live in that. That they may not want to, they may pay a premium so that they could live where they want to live and you end up with just another massive redistribution of wealth.”

People Want May Ends Wealth Pay Taxes Built Neighborhood Massive Housing Affordable Premium Redistribution Of Wealth Affordable Housing

Author:Eric Bolling

“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”

“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.”

“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“[Donald] Trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. They want to see an end to illegal immigration. They want to see it, and we all do. But we all have different ways of getting there.”

People Way Want Different Ends Wall Trump Built Immigration Different Ways Illegal Nerves Touching Illegal Immigration

Author:John Kasich

“Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Two Ends Care Kids Dies Courses Left Parent Failing Survival Ethics Built Tales Two Things Fairy Frightened Fairy Tale Look At Yourself Nobody Cares

Author:Stephen King

“Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it to be in a certain way. It's a mighty play. It's about a very old king who also happens to be a very old father, so you've got the state and the domestic levels in there together. It's a story in extremis. Everyone knows the end, there's only two people left alive.”

People Knows Way Two Ends States Play Stories Happens Together Certain Father Left Levels Alive Century Kings Built Classic

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.”

Ends Causes Space Objects Source Built Foundation Breathe Karma Evolve Atoms Centre Sustaining

Book:The Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Ancient Wisdom

“Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.”

“In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day, since we're taking other people's shekels to do it, and their work is being able to make a return out of it, it forces you to consider the fact that you're doing it for other people. The whole construct is built around the assumption that it's going to get shared, and that someone else is going to find value in it - entertainment, catharsis, enlightenment, or whatever.”

People Thinking Ends Whole Facts Able Values Force Return Enlightenment Built Good Things Entertainment Assumption The End Of The Day Constructs Catharsis Philosophic

Author:Edward Norton

“There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.”

Want Years Mean Doe Ends Facts Dies Wish Accepting Built Literal Headings Wanting To Die Death Wish

Author:Frank Langella

“What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got but what you gave; not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.”

Ends Matter Character Taught Built Competence

Author:Michael Josephson

“If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.”

People Ifs Littles Persons Ends Character Winning Sound Differences Built

Book:The Law of success: In Sixteen Lessions

Source: The Law of success: In Sixteen Lessions

“You know, yes, you can always argue that a backdoor can be built that's more secure, you know, and more difficult to get to and only law enforcement's going to get there. But nobody in the field of security believes that's ultimately going to provide this same protection that a tight end-to-end solution has without a backdoor.”

Knows Believe Ends Law Difficult Security Fields Solutions Built Protection Arguing Secure Law Enforcement Enforcement Yes You Can Backdoor

Author:Rod Beckstrom

“I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not a three day event) would have built awareness, and would probably have led to more substantive conclusions at the end of the first summit meeting. Civil society may have gained a bit more from the networking experience, but it was less effective at networking in the second phase.”

Thinking Years Firsts May Two Ends Country Three Bits Process Stage Awareness Events Built Meetings Conclusion Developing Two Years Phases Summit Networking Civil Society Developing Countries

Author:David Souter

“The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn't have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don't adjust, and that's how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don't adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations.”

Ifs Ends Problem Together Fall Fine Cost Built Recessions Rigidity Dislocation

Author:Charles Koch

“Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that government. Well, long story short, he failed to do that. He built up the military to a much greater status, more people in it, and actually more employees after the end of the Reagan administration. And, to achieve his objectives, he did some of the very same things that Trump is doing to achieve his. What Ronald Reagan really wanted to dismantle was the welfare state. And he had limited success in doing that.”

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Author:Brian Balogh

“I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.”

“If I didn't end up talking about the things that I care about, I wouldn't be myself. I didn't like the idea that I would be a different person on the internet than I would be in real life. And I see people struggling. I see people who face prejudice and people who feel invisible. And I recognize that I already have a built-in platform that I can utilize so easily to actually do something.”

People Ifs Feels Persons I Can Ideas Different Real Ends Would Be Care Faces Talking Struggle Internet Built Prejudice Real Life Invisible Platforms I Care

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.”

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Book:Molloy

Source: Molloy

“I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.”

Giving Ends Heaven Wind Wall Built Balls Golden Strings Gates Jerusalem

Author:William Blake

“It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.”

Ifs Men Wells Said Two War Ends Home Might Lying Sea Share Broken Arms One Day Built Rain Seasons Islands Streams Coming Home Swim Bricks Reckless

Author:Jamie O'Neill

“You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”

Wells Ends Matter Running Spirit Land Baby Built Sticks West East Texas Terrified Cages Free Spirit Wild Things Breakfast At Tiffanys Somali

Author:Truman Capote

“Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.”

Made Ends Wanted Choices Waiting Destiny Products Gun Shots Built Machines Let Me Belts Gears Spit Sewing Let Me Go Machine Guns Redos

Book:Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

Source: Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

“All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.”

Ifs Men Want Trying Ends Facts Universe Energy Materials Men And Women Built Connected This Life Desperate Frustrated Raw Materials Disillusioned

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.”

Ifs Way Want Life May Ends Faces Moving Sides Lines Path Wall Depends Lovers Built Opposites Lips Obstacles Accidents Cards Fixed Touching Magnet Juliet Filing

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.”

“Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity-advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.”

Ifs Men Way Humans Ends Community Pay Identity Cost Built Western Males Traits Competitors Inability Alienation End Of The Road

Book:Toward a New Psychology of Women

Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women

“War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!”

“In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.”

World Ends Wealth Achieve This World Materials Standards Commitment Built Legacy Judged Shallow Material Wealth

Author:Cesar Chavez

“We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.”

Ends Running Death Values Asks Teach Dying Degrees Built Patient Zero Death And Dying Mansions Rolls Royce

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.”

Made Soul Ends Seems Century Fool Built Let Me University Crowds Wit Glad Passing Passings Made It Paris Iron Halls Engineering Nineteenth Century Rust Buffoons

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.”

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Author:Gene Spafford

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