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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 don't know, ultimately, if we'll end up in San Francisco, but we're talking about keeping the house. It would be nice to always have a place here.

Quotes by Matt Cain

It starts on the defensive end, but it's also just the ball movement and holding everyone accountable.

Quotes by Matt Barnes

'The Notebook' wrecks me! I cry like a 6-year-old girl at the end.

Quotes by Matt Barr

At first, when 'Boxer' came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. 'Boxer' bought us our creative freedom.

Quotes by Matt Berninger

Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his mafia state on the ruins of a totalitarian regime. And so we end up with a mafia state...

Quotes by Masha Gessen

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Quotes by Marya Mannes

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.

Quotes by Mary Quant

In my end is my beginning.

Quotes by Mary Queen of Scots

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

Quotes by Mary Landrieu

Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.

Quotes by Mary Landrieu

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

Quotes by Mary Lou Williams

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Quotes by Mary Harris Jones

I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I'd end up with 33 vests.

Quotes by Mary Berry

I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebrity' would be the end. It makes me shudder.

Quotes by Mary Berry

'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it.

Quotes by Mary Berry

I don't particularly like being pregnant. I like the baby at the end. Pregnancy is a very distant thing for me. I can't seem to believe there's really a baby there. It's such a miracle.

Quotes by Mary Beth Whitehead

In a sense, the rumours suggesting I had quit were true: I had retired, but only from the personal-appearance end. I did that because I had always felt conspicuous onstage, and I'm not the sort of person who likes to...

Quotes by Marvin Gaye

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Quotes by Mary Astell

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

Quotes by Marty Meehan

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.