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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.

One wants to entertain the audience till the end. Sometimes, the desire is never-dying, as ANR garu once said. The caveat is that one has to be watchful of public reception.

Quotes by Chiranjeevi

I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a stable and secure environment for performers to feel they can push to the end of their ability.

Quotes by Chiwetel Ejiofor

I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.

Quotes by Chiwetel Ejiofor

I knew I did not want to be a doctor; my parents kept talking to me about that. I wanted to be an NBA player, but around freshman and sophomore year, I stopped growing, so that was the end of...

Quotes by Chieh Huang

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Quotes by Chili Davis

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

Quotes by Chet Faker

Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus - especially Arnie - he used to beat my brains out when we were young. In the end, I got even. I started beating him up. And that felt really good.

Quotes by Chi Chi Rodriguez

Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of...

Quotes by Chiaki Kuriyama

You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.

Quotes by Chick Corea

With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.

Quotes by Cheryl Hayashi

The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made...

Quotes by Chester Brown

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the...

Quotes by Cherie Blair

I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it.

Quotes by Chazz Palminteri

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

Quotes by Che Guevara

At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

Quotes by Cheech Marin

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

Quotes by Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Quotes by Charlton Heston

If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.

Quotes by Charlie Trotter

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.