When individuals combine in a joint effort to realize ends the have in common, the organizations, like the state, that they form for this purpose are given their own system of ends and their own means. But any organization thus formed remains one "pe...
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. ...
It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered, full of darkness and danger they were. Sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when the...
Mary Ansell Barrie: I'm tired of waiting, James. I'm tired of looking like a fool. J.M. Barrie: Well I can't very well give up the play. Mary Ansell Barrie: No. Just... come home to me at the end of the day. No more trips to the country, no more long...
[to Charlie] Robert McKee: I'll tell you a secret. The last act makes a film. Wow them in the end, and you got a hit. You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. Find an ending, but don't cheat, and don't you dare bri...
I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got ...
But she always kept on until the end. She knew, as i knew, that you don't stop a story half done. You keep on going, through heartbreak and pain and fear, and times there is a happy ending, and times there isn't. Don't matter. You don't cut a flower ...
A one-inch error at the start can be a thousand miles at the end.
You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane to be as sweet.
Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die.
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.
God existed before every religion; He exists in spite of all religions.
Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.
...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.
...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.
