"A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends."
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"A true initiation never ends."
"I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible."
"Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat."
"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."
"All societies end up wearing masks."
"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."
"You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end."
"It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment."
"Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing."
"Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves."
"Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?"
"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."
"The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism."
"If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road."
"If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end"
"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."
"Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends."
"Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself."
"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."