End Quotes

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

~ Og Mandino

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

~ Plato

My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

~ Serj Tankian

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.

~ Richard Prince

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

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

~ Peter Steele

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.

~ Carol Alt

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

~ Francis Quarles

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

~ Eve Arnold

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

~ Dorothy Thompson

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

~ John Hughes

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

~ Jessica Capshaw

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

~ Jennifer Aniston

I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.

~ Rita Ora

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

~ Jennifer Aniston

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.

~ David Cassidy

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

~ Claire Tomalin

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.

~ Dakota Fanning

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

~ Natalie Imbruglia

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

~ Helen Clark

I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don't know whether he would end up looking like himself. I'd be really sad if he looked strange.

~ Tuppence Middleton

If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

~ Gavin Newsom

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

~ Bill Gates

If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

~ Marc Andreesen

Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.

~ Pat Cadigan

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

~ Tina Brown

At the end of the day, I'm Violet's mom, and I want the best for her.

~ Christina Milian

It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

~ Bill Paxton

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.

~ Patti Smith

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

~ Sandra Bullock

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

~ John Locke

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

~ Ronald Reagan

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

~ Buenaventura Durruti

It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.

~ Russell T Davies

I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

~ Tony Blair

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

~ Karel Čapek