Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
‘Christian Mingle’ is about a young, modern, single woman. She’s trying to achieve it all – a successful career, amazing friends, and finding Mr. Right. She stumbles into the world of online dating looking for an instant ‘soul mate solution,’ but ultimately ends up taking a personal journey transforming her life.
Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I’ve changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.
My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year, but by the time I was 10, she was a divorced single mother of two young boys. To make ends meet, we moved in with my grandparents, who were also housing two of my mother’s siblings and their kids.
People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose concepts which will give audiences a stress-free two-and-a-half hours.
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
I was almost ready to call it quits – sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn’t know what else to do.
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.
I can’t think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
Social media makes it possible to go underneath a story, which sometimes abruptly ends.
Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
Sometimes I’ll have sections that I’m not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they’ll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what’s an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.
Raising a family is difficult enough. But it’s even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don’t need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
At one moment, I thought that if I didn’t do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn’t a ‘Mario Testino Picture.’ And I’ve realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.
I never think the ends justify the means.
When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it’s unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she’ll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.
The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist’s research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it’s even less – closer to a tenth of a percent.
I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you – it’s easier to know if you’re doing it right, as opposed to writing a play and then waiting around for somebody else to complete it.
My day begins early in the morning when I go for a morning walk and ends when I feel that I am tired.
The caddies are so overlooked out here, and I remember the tough times I had making ends meet when I used to carry the bag.
‘Sin Nombre’ was almost like the adolescent version of ‘Jane Eyre.’ ‘Jane Eyre’ sort of picks up where ‘Sin Nombre’ ends. It’s about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.
I take so many planes, so I need to give my skin and hair a moisture boost. I use a hair oil in the ends before I go on the plane and always spritz a face spray during the flight.
The Red Sox believe what’s written. If it’s written that I should be traded, more times than not, that’s what ends up happening. Look at the people who’ve gotten traded around here. It’s not their doing.
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I’m going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
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.
Growing up, I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.
There is no upside to making a disparaging remark about a colleague. If your remark is accurate, everybody already knows it, so there’s no need to point it out. If your remark is inaccurate, you’re the one who ends up looking like a jerk.
If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we’ll sanction that company and China.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I’ve done it all my life; that’s where my ability lies.
The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the ‘eternal sentry.’ The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
I think nothing ever ends on Disney Channel. They keep playing it.
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley’s steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.
We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn’t really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man’s lot is to live his human life, the poet’s to invent what is nonexistent.
Although the story of George and Lennie in ‘Of Mice and Men’ ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
We loved cars until the ’70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.
That’s what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends – ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.
Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I’d say ‘no.’ But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is uncertain at best, then the investor who steps into that breach ends up owning the company. Full stop.
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who’s a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederate family who’s been taken over by the army when they come into the city in Virginia. He strikes up a romance with the youngest daughter in the house, which obviously causes some issues for the family.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you’re a toddler and never ends.
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
I’ve changed, and I’ve learned every single year what to do and what not to do. But I still pride myself on going out and doing the right things. Doing what I’m supposed to be doing on both ends of the floor.
The difference between a film that ends up three hours and a film that is envisioned as three hours is that it’s written that way.
