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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.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: 'How can we provide value to our customers?' At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Quotes by Eli Broad

It's fun to sniff and slather on beauty products, but the end goal is finding what appeals most to 'Teen Vogue' readers and reporting on it in the most compelling way.

Quotes by Elaine Welteroth

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

Quotes by Eisaku Sato

My last audition for 'Baby Driver,' I had to meet with Jon Hamm and go through the scenes. I was a bit nervous: 'What if Jon Hamm dislikes me? This is the end.' I also watched 'Mad Men' religiously, so...

Quotes by Eiza Gonzalez

Hezbollah will support Assad to the end because his continuing hold on power is critical to its own survival.

Quotes by Ehud Barak

To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule over another people for generations without having any consequences - it's ridiculous.

Quotes by Ehud Barak

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Quotes by Ehud Olmert

Saudi Arabia is the country that in the end will determine the ability of the Arabs to reach a compromise with Israel.

Quotes by Ehud Olmert

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

Quotes by Edwidge Danticat

They tried to put me at tight end once, but I would end up just blocking people when they were actually trying to throw the ball to me. I was probably in middle school. It just didn't stick. Except on...

Quotes by Edwin Jackson

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Quotes by Edward Witten

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Quotes by Edward Norton

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Quotes by Edward James Olmos

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

Quotes by Edward Felten

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Quotes by Edward Gibbon

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

Quotes by Edward Gibbon

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

Quotes by Edward Bond

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Quotes by Edward Bond

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

Quotes by Edward Dmytryk

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Quotes by Edward Abbey

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.