I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that's all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
People take shortcuts to meet ends in MNCs.
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
You can't afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character; otherwise, what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
