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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 certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

Quotes by Joan Allen

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Quotes by Joan Baez

When I read a script I respond to it like an audience member. At the end of the film, if I'm there in the audience's mind, I have done my job.

Quotes by Jisshu Sengupta

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like...

Quotes by Jimmy Chamberlin

Later in life, I'd like to end up doing air races.

Quotes by Jimmy Graham

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Quotes by Jimmy Cannon

The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress.

Quotes by Jim Starlin

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.

Quotes by Jim Webb

For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end.

Quotes by Jim Rash

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

Quotes by Jim Rash

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.

Quotes by Jim Ratcliffe

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Quotes by Jim Rogers

I'm still a wrestling fan: That's how I started out, that's how I will end the day.

Quotes by Jim Ross

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Quotes by Jim McKay

Honestly, at the end of every season, we sit down and review where we're at.

Quotes by Jim Irsay

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.

Quotes by Jim Gerlach

The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.

Quotes by Jim Harrison

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

Quotes by Jim Crace

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

Quotes by Jim Crace

I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal together with different time delays and different phase shifts - it's...

Quotes by Jill Tarter

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.