The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce Sterling

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
Auberon Herbert

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.
Jenny Weber

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
Earl Wilson

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Robert Byrd

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
John Grierson

It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.
David Obey

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
Frederick William Robertson

I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
Dan Fogelberg

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.
John Zorn

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.
Naomi Watts

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.
Kim Wilde

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
Chauncey Wright

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
Marian Anderson

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
Sol LeWitt

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
Anne Dudley

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
Georg Baselitz

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
George Saintsbury

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
Amos Oz

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
Peter Straub