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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.

We’ve all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is taken up by a mural of the end of Toy Story 3.

Quotes by Nish Kumar

Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization...

Quotes by Nina Easton

In Germany, it is normal, when games end, you shake hands with your players.

Quotes by Niko Kovac

We want to chase and seal the championship title. The decisive thing is to be at the top at the end of the season.

Quotes by Niko Kovac

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Quotes by Nikki Giovanni

My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

Quotes by Nikki Haley

Soon, the Obama presidency will end, and America will have the chance to turn in a new direction.

Quotes by Nikki Haley

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

Quotes by Nigel Kennedy

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

Quotes by Nigel Rees

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Quotes by Nicole Krauss

For a number of years at my public elementary school in rural Maine, I was treated like all the other girls in school. That changed in September 2007 when a male classmate, set on a path by his grandfather, followed...

Quotes by Nicole Maines

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.

Quotes by Nicola Sturgeon

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was...

Quotes by Nicola Walker

I'm a proper Essex girl because my family was part of that great exodus from the East End.

Quotes by Nicola Walker

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Quotes by Nicolas Berggruen

I still gotta be Swaggy at the end of the day.

Quotes by Nick Young

It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

Quotes by Nicky Oppenheimer

I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh...

Quotes by Nick Offerman

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.