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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.

I can imagine staying in Munich after the end of my career. I have bought a very nice house, I feel good here and I like the mentality.

Quotes by Franck Ribery

We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.

Quotes by Francois Hollande

If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.

Quotes by Francois Hollande

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quotes by Francis Quarles

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

Quotes by Francis Spufford

Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.

Quotes by Francis Alys

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Quotes by Francis Bacon

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Quotes by Francis Bacon

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

Quotes by Francis Collins

If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what can be used safely to reimplant for a pregnancy. So they're going to end up being...

Quotes by Francis Collins

In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

Quotes by Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

Quotes by Foster Friess

I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy.

Quotes by Florence Pugh

Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

Quotes by Fisher Stevens

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.

Quotes by Flea

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Big clubs in Europe always go through difficult spells where it appears as though there is no light at the end of the tunnel. But because they are big clubs, they always come back, and they do so with a...

Quotes by Fernando Torres

In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.

Quotes by Felix Dennis

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't...

Quotes by Feist

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.