Best picks & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”

Knows Way Giving Ends Suffering Wise Dog Amount Picks Harder Deeper Mourning Owners Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Very Wise

Book:You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

Source: You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

“I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.”

Said Ends Age Young Difficult Personality Dad Battle Picks My Dad Nuclear Engineers Young Age Negotiating Scapegoat

Author:Faith Prince

“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”

War Ends Moving Political Politics Liberty Picks Gun Intriguing Property Rights

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.”

Way Ends Materials Picks Letters Wine My Way Labels Cigarette Old Letters

Book:Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages

Source: Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages

“If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Trying Ends Song Next Picks Guitar Free Time

Author:Chaz Bundick

“All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.”

Ifs Giving Years Littles Made Ends Enough Bigs White Rocks Design Objects Picks Baseball Fingers Woods Surface Irresistible Leather Neat Lighters Slippery Hunk

Author:Dave Dravecky

“By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.”

People Ifs Persons Has Beens War Ends Eye Hair Picks Blue Valuable Blue Eyes Sixth Sense Gestapo

Author:Diet Eman

“I did not know there was any controversy. I don't get a lot of time to read the fan forums, etc. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to have more storylines. I was just so happy to step in and pick up some of the slack for Emily while she was pregnant. It was so important for Emily to concentrate on her health and the well-being of her baby. In the end ... she is a great mother and her baby is adorable. I did not realize there was any controversy. LOL!”

Knows Wells Important Ends Mother Opportunity Realizing Steps Fans Baby Picks Well Being Etc Pregnant Controversy Adorable Emily Forums Storyline Great Mother Were Pregnant

Author:Eva LaRue

“Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.”

Wells Children Ends Three Clear Blood Picks Red Sells Fingers Blow Bubbles Bells Risen Scarce Tubes Wheat Emeralds

Book:The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861

Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861

“When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them. This dystopian trend picks up on that little part of your life where everything feels really extreme and it honors that part of your life and says, "Yeah. It is the end of the world. Look at it."”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Looks Littles Ends Problem Seems Young Becoming Honor Picks Wake Up Yeah Extremes Silly Teenager Trends Waking Dystopian End Of The World Silly Things

Author:Veronica Roth

“I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.”

People Ends Picks Paint Clouds The End Of The Day Paintbrush

Author:Peter Capaldi

“To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.”

“I do think that it is no surprise that, economically, America is in trouble. There's been a lot of trouble out there. More and more women have found themselves doing phone sex and things like that, to help pay bills, so that they could be two-income households. They can do these short-term jobs and still pick up their kids at school, at the end of the day, and drop them off in the morning. I find it fascinating. I'm not one to judge the people in that situation, nor would I really want to.”

“One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.”

Thinking World Ends Games Christ Successful Failing One Thing Couple Picks Percent Let Down Bad Games

Author:Mark Teixeira

“I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.”

People Giving Looks Two Ideas Ends Three Pieces Crazy Materials Picks Photographer Photograph Instruction Closest Mislead Documentation

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.”

Firsts Two Ends Three Known Picks Patterns Bars Rapper Typical Rhyming Three Words

Author:Bun B

“We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others.”

Ends Might Values Culture Names Given Born Picks Expected Chosen Live Life Behaviour Given Names

Author:Sheldon B. Kopp

“A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.”

May Ideas Ends Facts Picks Down And Afternoon Delightful

Book:Blue Pastures

Source: Blue Pastures

“Life has taught you many things, and the people close to you want you to have a good future, but it isn't their future in the end....its your choice you pick the path and lead the way. All your family will do is follow you while you are on that path and support you when you find the light at the end of your road.”

People Way Want Life Ends Light Choices Support Path Taught Picks Our Family Support You Good Future

Author:Julia Serano

“I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.”

Kind Doe Ends Matter Film Understanding Battle Picks Handle Irrelevant

Author:Peter Berg

“Sometimes I pick up the phone, listen to cold caller alias name, repeat it several times in an incredulous tone and then - bam! - pretend to recognise them. I ask them if they remember the hell of a time we had at the 1985 summer camp when we set fire to the wooden shed, and I keep making things up and go on and on until they end up terminating the call.”

Ifs Ends Sometimes Remember Asks Names Hell Fire Goes On Cold Summer Picks Phones Tone Repeats Camps Shed Recognise Summer Camp Aliases

Author:Sean O'Grady

“I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.”

Ends Play Whole Actors Lines Scene Picks Flow One Line

Author:Jason Winer

“Guys hated to play against me because my stock in trade was constant movement. I was quick but not fast so I would move my defender into picks, from one end of the court to another and wear him out until I had him tired and off-guard.”

Ends Play Moving Guy Movement Picks Trade Court Tired Constant Hated Defenders And Off

Author:Dolph Schayes

“When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.”

Firsts War Ends Home Together Mother Pieces Doors Fields Picks Daughter Stones Destroyed Mother And Daughter Haul

Author:Zainab Salbi

“We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.”

Ifs Ends Situation Picks Consequence Sticks Response

Author:Stephen Covey

“I remember coming in to the studio and meeting Barry Manilow . I was kind of star-struck. He said, "I want to play you this song." We get to the end of the song and I hear him actually sing my name as part of the lyric. I had to pick my jaw up from the floor!”

Want Kind Said Ends Play Remember Song Names Stars Picks Meetings Studios

Author:Dave Koz

“Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it's time for a chord change, but nobody knows what the chord should be, and you all, you know, it all just changes, magically, at the same time. It's when you pick up your phone to call someone and that person is calling you.”

Knows Should Persons Ends Song Ability Calling Musician Picks Phones Right Time Chords Nobody Knows Know It All

Author:Larkin Grimm

“I have a sign on my door. I look at it every single day of the week. The sign says, "Attitude is everything, so pick a good one." You need a very strong internal knowing. For instance, when I sat down to write the book The Power of Intention, I had a very strong internal knowing that I call thinking from the end.”

Thinking Needs Writing Looks Book Ends Strong Attitude Knowing Doors Week Picks Intention Instance Sat Internals Very Strong Attitude Is Everything Days Of The Week Power Of Intention

Author:Wayne Dyer

“We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.”

“If I'm working with you for several months on things, if I have a relationship with you, and I decide one day I'm going to sue you, I'm a country boy at the end of the day. I'm going to pick up the phone and tell you I'm going to sue you.”

Ifs Ends Country Boys Months One Day Picks Phones The End Of The Day Country Boy

Author:Tim Cook

“You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."”

Giving Ends Voice Picks Phones Great Things Perceive Transformed

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“A lot of times I pick passion projects but at the end of the day, I don't think much of what's going to work, I want to think about how it feels to do the work.”

Thinking Want Feels Ends Passion Projects Picks The End Of The Day Going To Work

Author:Eric Roberson

“That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.”

Ends Jobs Picks Labor Fruit The End Of The Day Fruit Of Labor

Author:Charlize Theron

“Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.”

Ends Pieces Habit Paper Picks Notes Discussion Alex Small Pieces Haley

Author:Manning Marable

“I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.”

Mean Ends House Picks Notes Saxophone

Author:John Zorn

“God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.”

World Inspirational Needs Trying Ends Pain Remember Passion Clear Wind Picks Breaths Longing Notes Lips Blow Reeds Flutes

Author:Rumi

“Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporal crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had.”

“Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.”

Thinking Men Ends Hands Earth Young Fall Universe Stars Rocks Missing Changed Bears Picks Strikes Young Man Thrown Lighters Circuits

Book:The farthest shore

Source: The farthest shore

“At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.”

People Want Needs Stills Ends Sometimes Matter Care Hurt Space Picks Distance Sticks Chosen The End Of The Day Load Bulls Invasion Anatomy Grey's Anatomy Personal Space

Author:Shonda Rhimes

“Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.”

Stills Ends Matter Evil Names Results Picks Devil Intention Tunes Judged End Results

Book:Chronicles of Nick

Source: Chronicles of Nick

“It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”

Men Wells Ends Color Picks Packages Lipstick Drawers

Author:Deb Caletti

“Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!”

Thinking Knows Needs Doe Said Ends Enough Picks Function Grass Muscles Chairs Eggs Cigarette Bent Blades Footprint Blades Of Grass

Book:Five Little Pigs (Poirot)

Source: Five Little Pigs (Poirot)

“Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end—as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary.”

“listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... --- ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.”

Thinking Mind Ends Enemy Fire Mets Picks Let Me Spread Not Sure Halls Keep Going Layers Provoking Cursed Analogies

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“For the past few years, I've been on a quest for a good old-fashioned date, the kind where the guy calls, makes the plans, picks you up in a car that's not his dad's or his other girlfriend's, and takes you somewhere that shows he put thought into what you might like, not what he might get off on like the latest how-many-naked-boobs-can-we-cram-into-this-movie-to-disguise-the-complete-lack-of-plot movie. I'm looking for the kind of date that starts with good conversation , has a sweet and satisfying middle, and ends with long, slow kisses and the dreamy feeling that you're walking on clouds.”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.”

Knows Said Ends Class Teacher Advice Subjects Inspire College Dad Picks My Dad Can Not Priceless Good Teacher

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use the first letter in each of those words. Mix it up between upper and lower case. Then pick two numbers that mean something to you – not dates – and stick them somewhere between the letters. Put a punctuation mark at the beginning of the password and then a symbol, like a dollar sign, at the end.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Mean Two Ends Character Use Numbers Cases Picks Letters Mark Dollars Sticks Sentences Symbols Minimum Fourteen Punctuation Passwords Punctuation Marks

Book:About That Night

Source: About That Night

“My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.”

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