In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.
We imagine 'the end' as a world-devastating event, but every time there's a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease - that's apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.
Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like.
In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment.
I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.
At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.
I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.
I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.
One thing I thought of, I call it By Sea, By Land, By Foot. It'd be a 100-mile paddle, a 100-mile run, and a 100-mile bike, back-to-back-to-back. But I don't want to end up in the hospital.
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?
I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.
I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.
There's nothing worse than trying to patch something or make do. If there wasn't something there in the beginning, it won't be there at the end.
