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 able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
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Pool swimmers are very slim, and they're stronger. Marathon swimmers have to train an awful lot, and they end up losing a bit of muscle mass. So we need to have a bit more fat, though that's not the case...
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.
The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop. Full is full. We're living on a small piece of land here.
Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.
I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.
And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?
I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
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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.
