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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 my first year in Congress, I introduced a War Powers Resolution to end the war in Yemen.

Quotes by Ro Khanna

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

Quotes by Rob Bell

Sometimes, a player and a coach can have a different opinion. In the end, the best interest of the end, the best interest of the club has to be kept in mind.

Quotes by Rivaldo

I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven't seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always...

Quotes by Rivers Cuomo

There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.

Quotes by Riz Ahmed

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

Quotes by Ringo Starr

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

Quotes by Ringo Starr

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

Quotes by Ringo Starr

At the end of the day, you have a side of the story that needs to be heard, too.

Quotes by Rico Nasty

The coaches are there to bounce ideas off and stuff, but at the end of the day, they let us be us. We make our match, and we do 'us', you know what I mean?

Quotes by Ricochet

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

Quotes by Rihanna

If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get...

Quotes by Riki Lindhome

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

Quotes by Rick Wagoner

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

Quotes by Rick Santelli

Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch.

Quotes by Rick Smolan

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

Quotes by Rick Smolan

Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon. This did not hurt him politically. The kind of people offended by such talk had already...

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.

Quotes by Richie Sambora

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.

Quotes by Rick Atkinson

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.

Quotes by Rick Bass

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.