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End Quotes

How things end - in war, in careers, in conscience.

This collection leans heavily historical, comparing a lost war to a chess endgame and recalling a family home destroyed during World War II. For quotes specifically about final outcomes and results, see End Result quotes.

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Quotes by George Lucas

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

Quotes by George Grosz

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Quotes by George Haven Putnam

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Quotes by George Henry Lewes

Better never begin than never make an end.

Quotes by George Herbert

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

Quotes by George Gillespie

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

Quotes by George Duke

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

George Eliot

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of...

Quotes by George C. Williams

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

Quotes by George Clooney

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the...

Quotes by George Combe

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided...

Quotes by George Best

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Quotes by George A. Moore

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

Quotes by Geoffrey Fisher

I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.

Quotes by Geoffrey Zakarian

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Quotes by Georg Buchner

The main thing I want to have at the end of my career is to be healthy. But as for people to remember me, I want my fans to remember the type of fights I had.

Quotes by Gennady Golovkin

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Quotes by Gene Ween

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

Quotes by Gene Kelly

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

Quotes by Gemma Arterton

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection say about responsibility and consciousness?
One quote reflects on the duty felt by those "involved in the receiving end of the oppression," tying awareness to responsibility. For more thought-provoking lines, see our Ending collection.
Is there a quote comparing war to a game of chess?
Yes - one quote describes how, for Germany, "the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary." Browse more in our End Result section.
Does the collection include personal wartime memories?
One quote recalls losing a home in 1943 and moving to "a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps," describing crowded conditions there by war's end.
Is there a lighter quote about being spared hardship?
Yes - one quote notes, somewhat wryly, "I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick." For more on outcomes and consequences, see our End Product page.
Are these quotes mostly about endings in a literal sense?
They use "end" in several ways - from the ending of a conflict to being on the receiving end of something difficult. Explore more in our End Of The World collection.

One entry shifts to social conscience, describing a felt duty toward those on whom oppression falls hardest. Readers interested in closure themes can also browse Ending quotes or End Of The World quotes for a more dramatic angle.