Best streets & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.”

Men Ends Mother Father Streets Debt Teenager Ruined Mother And Father

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”

Mean Ends Streets Havens Failure Fear Of Failure Dead Ends Detours Learning From Failure

Author:Zig Ziglar

“But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.”

Stills Ends Mother House Streets Grew Grew Up Corners Dead Ends

Author:Mink Stole

“Hillary Clinton at the end of the day will be a friend of Wall Street.”

Ends Streets Wall Clinton The End Of The Day

Author:Hillary Clinton

“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”

Knows May Ends Whole Accepting Know How Our Lives Streets Wind Mere Currents Conviction Determined Agents Definite Invitations Rejecting Free Agents

Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

“The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.”

Ends Social Democracy Streets Example Movement Wall Financial Ideology Eras Good Examples Financial Markets Occupy Wall Street Occupy Movement

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!”

Want Ends Turns Courses Streets Logic Faults Good Place Dead Ends

Author:Naomi Judd

“Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.”

Years Two Ends Sound Streets Band Albums Formulas Seeming Signatures Dead Ends Ramones

Author:Dave Grohl

“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.”

“If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.”

Ifs World Ends Light Running Turns Streets Rivers West East Circles Commerce Traffic Leafs Broadway Manhattan Batteries

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street.”

Doe War Ends Home Dream Night Memories Streets Car Fellows Endure Soldier Wounds Heal Going Away Coming Home Disability Marine Sailor Spine Wakes You Airmen Backfire Fellow Soldiers

Author:Barack Obama

“I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.”

Ifs Want Real Ends Crazy Streets Building Elements Difficulty Come Up Colour Shops Location Avenues Outlines Being Crazy

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.”

“The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from its independent thinkers: Striking all existing public and private debt from the books across the "entire planet"; elimination of all international borders; free college education; a guaranteed "living wage" for all regardless of employment; an end to free trade; trillions in additional spending for infrastructure and ecological restoration; and ending the fossil fuel economy.”

“In Birmingham, the women are maintained, the men are greedily lustful, and the children are named after high-end automobiles. You are just as likely to run into a Bentley, Mercedes, Porsche, and Lexus walking on the sidewalk as you are cruising the downtown streets.”

Men Children Ends Running Streets He Man Walking Automobile Sidewalk Downtown Birmingham Lustful Porsche Bentley Lexus

Author:Victoria Laurie

“When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Ends Turns Lost Hours Known Streets Food Crosses Mark Cooking Evening Vain Culinary Occupation Pauses Pulse Cocktails Strengthening Coma

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.”

People Ends Today Cities Taken Streets Barbarism City Streets

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.”

Ifs Long Ends Death Loses Streets Drama Inevitable Loved Ones Weary Shocked Nobility Succession Lingering Climax Relatives And Friends

Author:Alanna Knight

“I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.”

Ifs Want Feels Should Ends Audience Streets Waste Performances Thrown Platforms Disgusting Garbage Respectful Subway

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.”

Needs Ends Able Night Sleep Streets Wall Balance Comfort

Author:Hill Harper

“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.”

Wells Ends Hands Levels Streets Effects Crowds Defined Belly Simplest Petty Triggers Barrels Firing Pistols Surrealist Dashing

Author:Andre Breton

“Some street jokes are just timeless. There's an old street joke about comedians. The joke is that a beautiful girl comes up to a comedian at the end of the night and says, "I saw your show tonight, and I just loved it. I want to go home with you, and I'll do anything you want." And the comedian says, "Were you at the 7 or the 9?" That's just a perfect joke, because it points out how egomaniacal and obsessive comedians are. Even though I'm not waiting for a groupie, I can completely understand it. It just defines how comedians are driven.”

Want I Can Ends Shows Home Beautiful Night Girl Waiting Perfect Saws Streets Jokes Come Up Driven Comedian Tonight Timeless Obsessive Beautiful Girl Groupie

Author:Amy Schumer

“All women have a complicated relationship to beauty, but as a transgender woman it's a bit more complicated. There's a lot of pressure to appear feminine. When I was younger, I was most insecure about my size, my angular features, my feet, my hands . At the end of the day, it's about being comfortable in your own skin, and being able to walk down the street and not have people question your gender - and, for me, being perceived as a woman.”

“I can't wait to be racing through the streets of Chicago. As a notoriously fast course, I am out there to run a PR and compete with some of the world's best until the very end.”

World I Can Ends Running Courses Waiting Streets Chicago Racing

Author:Amy Hastings

“I came from nothing. My mother was a single mother in the streets. She did everything she could do. Me and my brother experienced a lot on our own and with me knowing that feeling, I didn't want others to have that feeling, so that's why I fight for the streets. I'm making my own lane and staying true to myself, 'cause at the end of the day, you can't ban the truth.”

Want Ends Feelings Mother Fighting Causes My Own Knowing Streets Brother My Brother The End Of The Day Staying Lanes Bans Stay True Single Mother True To Myself

Author:Trae tha Truth

“I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.”

Knows Real Ends Guy Winning Strong Sports Hurt Streets Smart Beats Tough Weak Clean Rings Boxing The End Of The Day Strong Will Bodyguard Real Power Tough Guy

Author:Mike Tyson

“When you're going to try and have people talk in a room and actually reflect life as we know it and have people recognize themselves and their own street and their own house in it, well then you're aiming for the high country and it's a much bigger gamble. You can interview all the marketing gurus and the people in charge of, you know, the people you gotta fight with in order to get your seats here, and they all talk about release dates and counterprogramming. At the end of the day, it's gotta be a good movie.”

People Knows Trying Wells Ends Country Order Fighting House Rooms Streets Bigger Marketing Release Interviews Seats The End Of The Day Guru Gamble Good Movie Release Date

Author:Tom Hanks

“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.”

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“There are a lot of things going on that's causing a lot of these young kids to head in the wrong direction. I know a lot of kids that are cutting school. I try to give out a positive message, trying to get kids focused. If they don't then they're going to end up like every other hoodlum in the street.”

Ifs Knows Giving Trying Ends Kids School Young Cutting Streets Messages Focused Wrong Direction Positive Messages

Author:Prince Royce

“I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.”

Humans Persons Stills Ends Play Artist Stars Human Beings Simple Streets Rocks Mom Walking Aspect Guitar Electric Rock Star Simple Life Electric Guitar

Author:Patti Smith

“Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.”

Want Ends Happens Results Streets Organization Assuming Capitalist Stance

Author:Angela Davis

“Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.”

Thinking Ends Worry Streets Anxiety Moving Forward Trapped Avenues Compounds Futility Dead Ends Futility Of Life Chemical Compounds

Author:Cullen Hightower

“If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.”

“I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.”

Knows Way Ends Humor Funny Know How Streets One Way Dead Ends

Author:Steven Wright

“Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.”

Ends Reality Happens Vision Streets Surprise Painful Expected Intense Dull Consensus Inexplicable Dead Ends

Author:Jim Woodring

“As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.”

Ifs Firsts Real Ends Stories Film Courses Actors Opportunity Streets Horror Nightmare Good Story Horror Film Dead Ends Nightmare On Elm Street

Author:Lin Shaye

“End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.”

Ends Streets Wall Rewards Incentives Speculators

Author:Ralph Nader

“David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I saw Harsh Times, I saw Street Kings and I saw End of Watch. I gave my agents a list of directors that I wanted to work with, and at the top of that list was David. I wanted to have that experience.”

Ends Wanted Careers Watches Saws Streets Kings Directors Notes Lists Agents Maps Harsh

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.”

Children Littles I Can Ends Earth Christian Streets Type Cold Activity Corners Neglect Consistency Secularism Covenant Street Corners

Author:John Gresham Machen

“Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.”

People Art Ends Streets Students College Scene Designer Art Students

Author:Boy George

“I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Sometimes Values My Own Streets Wall News Noses Fund Dead Ends

Author:Michael Burry

“I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?”

“Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.”

Ends Black Streets Battle Beats Rose British East London Shirts Neighborhood March Beaten Cables Fascists East London

Author:Rachel Maddow

“The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings or your home, is to put an end to the excessive economic and political power of Wall Street by busting up the big banks.”

Way Ends Home Bigs Jobs Political Risk Economic Streets Wall Losing Saving Savings Political Power Risk-taking Busting

Author:Robert Reich

“I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe.”

“From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.”

Ends America Streets Wall Criminals Alcatraz

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down.”

Knows Ends Play Might Jobs Night Break Morning Groups Streets Pride Musician Clubs Attraction New Orleans Tourists Noon Great Music Great Musician Bourbon Busier Bourbon Street

Author:Troy Andrews

“I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.”

People Knows Men Years Ends Home Lost Pleasure Party Streets Movement Months Decided Sight Notes Seven Following Stranger Traveled Seven Years Back Home Venice January

Author:Sophie Calle

“So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.”

Ends Mother Streets Wall Majors Accomplishment Initiative Basements Occupy Wall Street

Author:Ann Coulter

“The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.”

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)

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