The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.
Ninon de L'Enclos

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.
Clay Aiken

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
Jawaharlal Nehru

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. Salinger

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
Tom Cruise

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Jacob Bronowski

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.
Edwin Louis Cole

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
Steve Spurrier

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Arthur Miller

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.
Rowan Atkinson

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
Salma Hayek