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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 thought that the league-imposed restriction on drinking had expired at the end of the regular season.

Quotes by Josh Gordon

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.

Quotes by Joseph Rotblat

In the end, the politics of the euro zone weren't strong enough to create a fully integrated fiscal union with a common banking system, etc.

Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Quotes by Joseph Heller

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods...

Quotes by Joseph Hume

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Quotes by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates what is useful to it and rejects that which would harm it.

Quotes by Joseph de Maistre

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told -...

Joseph Conrad

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

Quotes by Joseph A. Schumpeter

At the end of the year, you'll see my numbers. My numbers are always there.

Quotes by Jose Reyes

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto....

Quotes by Jose Antonio Vargas

If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys never been knocked down, never been stopped.

Quotes by Jorge Masvidal

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

Quotes by Jordan Peele

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

Quotes by Jonny Greenwood

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Quotes by Jonny Wilkinson

As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with...

Quotes by Jonathan Stroud

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Quotes by Jonathan Turley

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

Quotes by Jonathan Nolan

Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to...

Quotes by Jonathan Powell

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.