Ends Quotes - Page 120

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events -- the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed -- I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.

Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

I can't stop working. The health of the nation depends on it.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

I have a lot of friends that I'd like to shout out but I don't think anyone will know who they are.

I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them.

Jeff Foxworthy is a legend. Every time I see his moustache it reminds me to wax my lip and every time I hear his jokes it reminds me to wipe my ass.

We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

Jesus is my forgiver, my leader, and my friend.