I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I...
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surpris...
Life has no happy endings, actually, no endings at all, just an ongoing series of beginnings. A story—whether it’s happy or sad, whether it makes sense or not, what its meaning is—depends entirely on where you start it and where you end it.
Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
As long as one suffers one lives.
There is/no reasoning with need.
Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.
The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.
The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
The ordeal is not that truth does not win; it is that it wins in the end.
At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
Servility always curdles into rage in the end.
In the end only kindness matters.
At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.
To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
A good beginning makes a good end.
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
