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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.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

Quotes by Damian Lewis

I started rapping towards the end of middle school. In high school, with a lot of my friends, we would make beats and just start rapping - beating on the wall, beating on the table and freestyling.

Quotes by Damian Lillard

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of...

Quotes by Daisaku Ikeda

We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.

Quotes by D. B. Weiss

To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

Quotes by D. J. MacHale

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

Quotes by Cyril Ramaphosa

In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.

Quotes by Cyril Ramaphosa

I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have....

Quotes by D. A. Pennebaker

I love a warm bath at the end of a day.

Quotes by Cynthia Nixon

I'm not writing necessarily for an audience. I think about the audience at the end, once I have a complete book. But, when I'm writing it, I really need to feel like I'm learning, and I'm investigating something that I'm...

Quotes by Crystal Hana Kim

I think when you lose the fight, it's not the end of the world. You can keep training and catch up and try again better, you know?

Quotes by Cris Cyborg

My tights split while I was tap dancing in the West End in 1993.

Quotes by Craig Revel Horwood

We even did a re-imagining of 'Spider-Man' that James Franco starred in that didn't make it into 'This Is The End'. That didn't make the final cut, but I wouldn't be surprised if it made the DVD.

Quotes by Craig Robinson

The end of 2016, Mariah Carey got on stage, and it was mean. The technical difficulties that she came across, now everybody think that she was lost.

Quotes by Craig Robinson

When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart...

Quotes by Craig Stevens

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

Quotes by Craig Brown

My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon.

Quotes by Craig Bruce

Certain key words, like, 'break it down,' 'this is how we do it' - they'll always end up on my tracks.

Quotes by Craig David

I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.

Quotes by Craig David

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

Quotes by Courtney B. Vance

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.