Ends Quotes - Page 64

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

All things come to pass When they do, if they do All things come to their end When they do, as they do. . . .

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."

Let's examine the dog mind: Every time you come home, he thinks it's amazing. He can't believe that you've accomplished this again. You walk in the door. The joy of it almost kills him. "He's back again! It's that guy! It's that guy!"

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

We start from Kuwait, and to Kuwait we end. Anyone but that, is not from Kuwait, and Kuwait is not from them.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

More depends on my walk than talk.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Be like water, my friend.