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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.

There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.

Quotes by Charlie Hunnam

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make...

Quotes by Charlie Norwood

A lot of actors give a performance that many people connect with and they end up talking about it a lot of their life.

Quotes by Charlie Plummer

That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

Quotes by Charlie Byrd

In the end, everything is a gag.

Quotes by Charlie Chaplin

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Quotes by Charles Simmons

By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian.

Quotes by Charles Murray

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

Quotes by Charles Kennedy

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

Quotes by Charles de Lint

America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.

Quotes by Charles Duhigg

In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.

Quotes by Charles Duhigg

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

Quotes by Charles Eames

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.

Quotes by Charlene Tilton

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

Quotes by Charles Barkley

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

When you are the parent of someone who is a chronic pain sufferer, you end up creating these binders for all of the hospital stays so you can keep track of every visit and any new thing that comes out.

Quotes by Chandra Wilson

At the end of the day, broadcast television has many opportunities to inform the audience, to enlighten the audience, and to entertain them.

Quotes by Channing Dungey

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.