Endless Quotes

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

The possibilities are just endless.

Human life is just a given series, an endless series of such moments.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants.

Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Caring for others is accomplished by a dazzling array of skills in an endless variety of circumstances. As well as cooking, shopping, cleaning, laundering, planting, tending, harvesting for others, women comfort and guide, nurse and teach, arrange and advise, discipline and encourage, fight for and pacify. Taxing and exhausting under any circumstances, this service work, this emotional housework, is done both outside and inside the home.

The permutations and combinations are endless. It's like a game of three-dimensional chess.

As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

The number of threat agents against which we could guard ourselves is endless. ... Although we cannot be prepared for every threat, we have the ability to create a strategic approach to identifying and combating the greatest threats.

We're always looking at acquisitions. The need for integration is an endless opportunity.

Oceanfront reaches a certain level where it just makes the inland stuff more popular. You don't have an endless supply of rich investors out there.

Wolfgang Puck and his wife, Barbara Lazaroff, have it all. There are endless people, who are either imitating him or trying to, but it's very hard to imitate somebody who is that good and that creative.

Penn Hills has an endless supply of athletic kids. They are extremely fast, and you see that right away. Their speed is who they are.

She's a package of dynamite, an endless worker.

endless puzzles made up on the spot, all fresh and original.

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.