Ends Quotes - Page 44

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

People who keep dogs live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is a simple medical fact that the calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure and therefore the risk of heart attack.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

No one beats The Legend Killer.. Thats why I'm the greatest in this business!

The end of all being is the glory of God.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.