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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.

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

Quotes by Sonita Alizadeh

I usually get out of my roles easily when dramas end.

Quotes by Son Ye-jin

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

Quotes by Sol LeWitt

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Quotes by Solomon Burke

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

Quotes by Sloane Crosley

It doesn't matter what you believe in or where you're from. It doesn't matter what group you're in: we're all the same. We all end up in the same-sized box.

Quotes by Slowthai

I think the obsession with fair skin should end.

Quotes by Sobhita Dhulipala

I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but its definitely in the right direction for freedom and truth.

Quotes by Skepta

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

Quotes by Simon van der Meer

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would...

Quotes by Simon Pegg

I try not to write jokes that are mean. I try my best to write jokes that are pretty universal and jokes that don't attack anyone. I know I often fall short of that and end up taking unfair swipes...

Quotes by Simon Rich

By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

Quotes by Simon Schama

When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn't written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go...

Quotes by Simon McBurney

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

Quotes by Sienna Miller

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Quotes by Sidney Blumenthal

There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and...

Quotes by Sid Gillman

I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson...

Quotes by Sid Waddell

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

Quotes by Siddharth Shukla

I am no different from so many professionals who go on maternity leave only towards the end of their pregnancy.

Quotes by Shweta Menon

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Quotes by Sid Caesar

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.