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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.

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Quotes by Colin Angle

Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid...

Quotes by Colin Angle

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

Quotes by Colin Angle

I've really been enjoying The Bar Method because I'm not a sweaty mess when we get to my favorite part of class - the end.

Quotes by Cobie Smulders

Just when your ovaries should be brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook mine, threatening to end my fertility and potentially my life.

Quotes by Cobie Smulders

I know how demanding show biz is. I fear that things would just end up bad if I'd date a colleague.

Quotes by Coco Martin

After 'Versace' and 'American Horror Story,' if that was the end of the line, then I can go happy.

Quotes by Cody Fern

At the end of the day, everybody has the right to choose their own path in their career.

Quotes by Clint Dempsey

I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is...

Quotes by Clint Howard

If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on....

Quotes by Clive Anderson

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological...

Quotes by Clive Barker

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

Quotes by Clive Sinclair

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Quotes by Clifford Geertz

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.

Quotes by Clay Clark

At the end of the day that's why I play the game, to glorify Him in everything I do and to compete for Him.

Quotes by Clayton Kershaw

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an...

Quotes by Cleveland Abbe

At the end of 'Afterlife' - hmm, how do I do this without spoilers - Skye took a very strange journey that crossed the boundary between life and death. And now, for her, that boundary is permanently blurred.

Quotes by Claudia Gray

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Quotes by Claudio Monteverdi

Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go, and you know how it's going to end. That's a fairy tale.

Quotes by Clare-Hope Ashitey

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.