Best gone & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.”

Ends Seems Black Gone Concepts Species Dust Fades

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.”

Book Ends Might Order Interest Gone Return Reader Equal Kitchen Organized Hops Logical Bus Replaced Bathroom Sister Tourists

Author:Eleanor Brown

“Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.”

Ifs World Writing Ends Dream Happens Able Sleep Morning Gone Middle Bed Function Wake Up Awake Shallow Surroundings Session

Author:Stephen King

“Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.”

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.”

Ifs Ends Might Kids Race Gone Couple Self Confidence Winner Stubborn Drains

Author:Truman Capote

“There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.”

Ends Wish Teach Gone Debate Youngsters Quickness

Book:Howard's End

Source: Howard's End

“Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.”

Ifs Way War Ends Certain Fighting Gone Victory Gains Forgotten Objectives Remove Obstruction

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor would any major war in which Britain was involved after this date end in defeat. Those who are curious about this country's peculiar social and political stability probably need look no further than this for essential cause.”

Needs Looks War Ends Country Political Social Causes Gone Stage Involved Essentials Majors Unions Defeat Curious Britain Stability Peculiar British History

Author:Linda Colley

“At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.”

World Ends Whole Home Earth Suffering Father Jesus Perfect Gone Garden Embrace East Wander Decay Eden Arriving East Of Eden

Author:Timothy Keller

“The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.”

Ends Gone Judgement

Author:Publilius Syrus

“It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.”

“The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?”

Doe Ends Black Gone Sea Band Ocean Blue Evening Horizon Fog

Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.”

Ifs Way Giving Firsts Ideas Ends Would Be Earth Form Religion Gone Prejudice Ancient Deeper Insight Folly New Ideas Threatening Foe Better Life

Book:The Greek Way

Source: The Greek Way

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.”

People Ends Deals Grief Gone Shapes Misconception

Author:Keanu Reeves

“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.”

Kind Long Ends Shows Lasts Beautiful Moving Asks Morning Gone Focus Serious Hollywood Ice Dancer Live By Quarters Ballet Rainbow Ballet Dancer Haze Skater Jumpers Serious Work

Author:Tana French

“Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.”

Long Ends Term Gone Ready Bird South Release Prisoner Migrants

Book:Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim

Source: Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim

“Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.”

Writing Years Mind Littles Ends Loses Novel Gone Seven Accomplish Thirty Seven Years Seventh Birthday

Author:Akhil Sharma

“We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.”

World Mean Ends Time Realizing Memories Sin Secret Gone Sadness Willing Late Claims Stranger Passing Admire Passings Too Late Time Passing Time Passes Secret Life Admiring Insufficiency

Author:Alexander Theroux

“In every country, it's different, and you have to be flexible and slow and careful, and in the end rely on the experience of others who have gone before you and have begun to figure these things out.”

Different Ends Country Gone Figures Careful Rely Flexible

Author:Rick Rowley

“At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.”

Years Ends Shows Together Gone Our Lives Cutting Air Week Stage Tvs Blessing Moved Seven Ties Seven Years Moved On Family Ties

Author:Gary David Goldberg

“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.”

“My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.”

Kind Ends Matter Stars Gone Becoming Presses Rounds Agents Movie Star Merry Living On Scenery Interviewers Layout Merry Go Round

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“But beware of this about callings: they may not lead us where we intended to go or even where we want to go. If we choose to follow, we may have to be willing to let go of the life we already planned and accept whatever is waiting for us. And if the calling is true, though we may not have gone where we intended, we will surely end up where we need to be.”

Ifs Want Needs May Ends Waiting Accepting Gone Willing Calling Letting Go

Author:Steve Goodier

“When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind.”

Thinking Men World Mind Kind War Real Ends Kids Father Stuff My Own Watches Gone Taken Stuck War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I My Best Friend Cleveland Real Stuff

Author:Wes Craven

“I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.”

Knows Way Ends Gone Land Floats Plunge

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I think that's an obligation you have, to give back no matter what happens. It actually ends up being easier when you're young than when you become successful. Suddenly you realize you've gone into a whole other realm of philanthropy, from just being a volunteer to being this person that dedicates buildings and saves lots of children in some faraway place.”

“There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.”

“Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.”

Kind Ends Matter Care Left Love Is Gone Illusion Okay Exciting Passionate Fades Being In Love Kinds Of Love Cares About Someone

Book:Man and Boy: A Novel

Source: Man and Boy: A Novel

“My arm is paralyzed; my voice that once could be heard all along the line, is gone; I can scarcely speak above a whisper; my hearing is very much impaired, and sometimes I feel as if I wished the end would come; but I have some misrepresentations of my battles that I wish to correct, so as to have my record correct before I die.”

Ifs Feels I Can Ends Sometimes Dies Speak Wish Voice Lines Gone Records Heard Arms Battle Hearing Paralyzed Before I Die Misrepresentation

Author:James Longstreet

“I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.”

People Kind Ends Certain Gone Groups Fans Huge Losing Core Stuck

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone.”

“The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.”

Art Ends Matter Lasts Numbers Gone Difficulty Notes Strive Finals Simplicity Endless Charm Disappointed Strife Seals

Author:Frederic Chopin

“In a world gone astray from God there is no peace, but it also lacks charity, which is true and perfect love... Nothing is more beautiful than love. Indeed, faith and hope will end when we die, whereas love, that is, charity, will last for eternity.”

World Ends Lasts Beautiful Dies Perfect Gone Eternity Charity Hope And Faith Perfect Love

Author:Pier Giorgio Frassati

“Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.”

Important Ends Church Gone Impossible Groups Teaching Surrender Word Of God Forsake Denominations

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. The analysis is actually the easy part. The economics, the valuation of the business isn't that hard. The psychology - how much do you buy, do you buy it at this price, do you wait for a lower price, what do you do when it looks like the world might end - those things are harder. Knowing whether you stand there, buy more, or whether something has legitimately gone wrong and you need to sell, those are harder things. That you learn with experience, by having the right psychological makeup.”

World Needs Looks Ends Hard Might Easy Waiting Gone Knowing Psychology Economics Harder Sells Investing Psychological Analysis Makeup Intersections Valuation

Author:Seth Klarman

“In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.”

World Giving Years Heart Ends Matter Today Joy Easy Loses Gone Our Lives Sight Mourning Urges Slips Things That Matter Today's World

Author:Roger Housden

“The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends.”

Men World Way Children Ideas Ends Body Lying Suffering Dies Belief Realizing Born Prayer Support Gone Sacrifice Worst Protect Destruction Wit Monsters Frightened

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.”

People Has Beens Ends Shows Actors Gone Creator

Author:Lauren Graham

“Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.”

Should Years Ends Stars Forget Wonder Gone Our Lives Glory Laughter Wine Embrace Granted Encounters Sunset Suspects Casual Love And Friendship Food Love Fireplaces

Author:Jack McDevitt

“My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.”

Firsts Believe Book Ends Gone Trouble Findings Photograph Reactions Wow Spirals Jetty

Author:Vik Muniz

“Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.”

Humans Art Ends Human Beings Gone Danger Unique Spring Dare Decent Works Of Art

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.”

Long Ends Term Gone Atheism Long Term

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.”

Trying Mean Ends Feelings Life Is Gone Saws Planets Fame Music Is Dating Focused Remarkable More Money Means To An End

Author:Moby

“I don't know what people want, really. Does somebody have to die? What is meant by resolution? These are questions that I don't quite know what to do with. That being said, I did want the characters to be changed by the end of the book. But will what they've gone through alter their lives from this point forward, i.e. will they make different (better) choices? Probably not.”

People Knows Want Doe Said Book Different Ends Character Dies Choices Gone Changed Resolution

Author:Mary J. Miller

“If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But if you look back at his career, I don't think it's surprising. From Good Will Hunting on down, the guy is a monster talent, and I think talent wins out, in the end. There's always the ebb and flow of any career, but I think talent wins out, in the end.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Ends Guy Actors Winning Careers Gone Talent Directors Flow Extraordinary Monsters Hunting Surprising Good Will Ebb And Flow Will Hunting

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

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