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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.

The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for...

Quotes by David Levering Lewis

The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then...

Quotes by David Icke

Middle Eastern wars rarely end with outright victory and permanent stability, so the word 'settlement' may promise too much. At best, for many years, it may simply mean stable ceasefire lines, reduced bloodshed, fewer refugees, and less terrorism.

Quotes by David Ignatius

No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.

Quotes by David Haye

Money talks at the end of the day.

Quotes by David Haye

British podcasts tend to shamefacedly shuffle the ads towards the end. Americans put them up front and promote them enthusiastically. I think the Americans have it right.

Quotes by David Hepworth

What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself...

Quotes by David Grinspoon

At the end of the day, what I try to bring to villainous characters is a sense of humanity.

Quotes by David Harbour

I watched the night unfold from beginning to end on my own here in my flat in Budapest where I've been working for the last six months, and when it was announced that Barack Obama was indeed president-elect, I wept.

Quotes by David Harewood

If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me.

Quotes by David Grann

One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

Quotes by David Grann

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Quotes by David Foster Wallace

At the end of the day, none of us are doing an impression of the guys we are playing; we are just trying to create the essence of what they do for a living and go through with their families.

Quotes by David Denman

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is...

Quotes by David Chipperfield

Most games end up with quite caricature scripts because they are just here to serve the game-play mechanics but not to trigger any emotional response.

Quotes by David Cage

I watched, for the 17th and hopefully the last time, The 'Guns of Navarone' on New Year's Eve. I always watch just in case the explosives don't go off in the end. You have to watch the end, just to...

Quotes by David Cameron

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

Quotes by David Cameron

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.

Quotes by David Cameron

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

Quotes by David Cassidy

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

Quotes by David Cassidy

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.