Top 100 End Quotes
#1. He had seemed fierce and noble but in the end he was as disappointing as everyone else.
Kate Atkinson
#2. Just be careful implies that there's an end to it all, maybe in an hour, maybe in three years, but an end just the same.
Jennifer Niven
#3. So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
Malcolm Wallop
#4. At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.
Noreena Hertz
#5. I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.
Rufus Wainwright
#6. A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
Rick Bass
#7. Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#8. They may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. I love you. I will love you until the end of the world.
Sherry Thomas
#10. One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.
Jason Segel
#11. Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
Adelina Sotnikova
#12. I quote the late Ed Murow ... He said: 'Look, people listen to me when they want an eyewitness account. 'They think I'm a pretty good reporter. But when it comes to my opinions, mine are not worth anymore than the guy at the end of the bar.' And I believe that about myself.
Dan Rather
#14. Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.
Jon Ronson
#15. It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.
Andrew Sean Greer
#16. Spend zero time on what you could have done, and devote all of your time on what you might do. Because in the end, nobody cares; just run your company.
Ben Horowitz
#17. I want to die and be finished forever. Don't you want to die?" he said. "I don't know." "What's the point of living if we don't die at the end of it?" In
Don DeLillo
#18. I should be mortified, I know. But Alys is a good friend to me, and though she has her faults, she has a good and generous heart.(Emily)
And is that all that matters to you? (Draven)
Aye. People will always make mistakes, but in the end 'tis their heart that matters most. (Emily)
Kinley MacGregor
#19. Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. In the purely historical universe that they
have chosen, rebellion and revolution end in the same dilemma: either police rule or insanity.
Albert Camus
#20. Remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be - a period or an exclamation point.
Richard Paul Evans
#21. Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
Chanakya
#22. Realizing the emptiness of a "spirituality"
and of a "spiritual" nurture
that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments.
Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick
#23. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.
Margaret Sanger
#24. When you reached the point of losing your reasoning, that's called falling in love. Actually, those who have lost their reasoning chase blindly without thinking about the risks. They run and run like confused wild pigs. That's why, most of the time, they end up getting hurt. -- Sagan
Yuuri Eda
#25. I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?
Frank Herbert
#26. Despite their inglorious end, the legions remain to this day, thousands of years after their creation, the most pre-eminent example of how detailed organization, tight discipline, and inspiring leadership can take a group of individuals and turn them into a winning team.
Stephen Dando-Collins
#27. I will not die, it's the world that will end.
paraphrase of unknown philosopher
Ayn Rand
#28. I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to use before we're born.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#29. I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
Patricia Briggs
#30. When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.
Lou Barlow
#31. I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.
Odette Annable
#32. Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.
Brian Greene
#33. He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.
Cheryl Strayed
#34. We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.
Billy Joel
#35. The ultimate measure of love is not when both like each other
Its when one ignores but the other continues to love till the end.
William Shakespeare
#36. Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#37. And in the end,
she left a scar
and I knew that was
how she wanted to
be remembered.
She wanted to leave
her mark in the
world
without getting
her heart too
attached to it.
Robert M. Drake
#38. I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.
Mark Hart
#39. If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn
#40. She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.
Linda Hogan
#41. You tread a difficult path, Amber. You are none of the things they will think you are. In the end, you will have no guides but yourself.
Mark Henwick
#42. Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
Natalie Goldberg
#43. The challenges that attempt to break us are, in the end, what actually make us.
Michelle Beber
#44. There is really no crisis except an artificial one ... If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
Abraham Lincoln
#45. Music begins where the possibilities of language end
Jean Sibelius
#46. Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.
Retief Goosen
#48. What about Cher and Suzanne?" I called after him.
"I don't know, but if you end up kissing them, call me. I wanna watch.
Vicki Pettersson
#49. I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
Kate Atkinson
#50. Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him.
Max Anders
#51. The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,
George Inness
#52. I lost myself in her eyes. "I need you to know, you're my light in all this darkness. I don't want this to end."
She traced her finger along my lips. "Then don't die for me tomorrow. Live.
Lisa Kessler
#53. I pray for the courage
To walk naked
At any age
To wear red and purple,
To be unladylike,
Inappropriate,
Scandalous and incorrect
To the very end.
Gloria Steinem
#54. I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'
Lee Child
#55. Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?
Kim Deal
#56. In the end, no single group will mean defeat for the Democrat and victory for the Republican in 2016. But President Obama's troubling legacy - a weakened coalition and growing ranks of alienated white voters - could mean a serious post-presidential hangover for Democrats.
Byron York
#57. Only by facing my sin could God use it to change me for the better. The Bible warns that God's discipline isn't pleasant, but in the end the changes God produces in our character are worth it.
Lee Strobel
#58. Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
To mourn, and murmur and repine,
To see the wicked placed on high,
In pride and robes of honor shine.
But oh, their end, their dreadful end,
Thy sanctuary taught me so,
On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
And fiery billows roll below.
Isaac Watts
#59. Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.
Dave Grohl
#60. Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.
R. Kelly
#61. Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
Khaled Hosseini
#62. Knowledge was a personal life preserver you could always count on when you were swimming in the deep end
Deb Caletti
#63. Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor.
Atom Egoyan
#64. Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it
Jacques Attali
#65. At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.
Luke Bracey
#66. The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#67. Sometimes, when we're fixated on reaching the end, we miss the important things along the way.
Cameron Jace
#68. I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
Jonathan Swift
#69. Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.
Herman Melville
#70. The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end.
Chris Matakas
#71. There are always choices in life. People are going to pull you in all directions. Where you end up is a direct result of how wise your decisions are.
Colleen Coble
#72. I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.
Lisa Kudrow
#73. And that was the very end of the adventure of the wardrobe. But if the Professor was right, it was only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#74. Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.
William Booth
#75. In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.
John Connolly
#76. Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#77. In the end, it makes no difference who you are. It's friends that count.
Rachel Joyce
#79. Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H.G.Wells
#80. Because the body is the end product of intelligence and how that intelligence shapes your reality will shape the reality of the body.
Deepak Chopra
#81. This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn't want me on a cross-country team; I'd end up on Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Mark Frost
#82. By focusing on possibilities, you can see more than a potential light at the end of the tunnel. The light doesn't have to be at the end of the tunnel; it can illuminate an opportunity wherever you are.
John B. Arden
#83. At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.
Ray William Johnson
#84. Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.
Martin Buxbaum
#85. I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.
Tatiana Maslany
#86. I did love Kolkata as a mysterious woman, the beloved, my mother ... I dont the outside world, my world is Kolkata ... I do want to live, but Im certain that the death of Kolkata will bring my end
Sukanta Bhattacharya
#87. The Great Leveller, Dogman whispered to himself, since he was in a thoughtful frame of mind. That's what the hillmen call him. Death, that is. He levels all differences. Named Men and nobodies, south or north. He catches everyone in the end, and he treats each man the same.
Joe Abercrombie
#88. He bit the narrow end of the flower and sucked the droplet of nectar from its base. 'You only taste it for a second. But it's worth it.' page 333
M.L. Stedman
#89. With the e-reader, the whole book was on
the same virtual page. One could not feel the depth of the pages on the left side increase as those of the right side diminished, the
gradual progression from beginning to middle to end, the sense of where one stood in the journey of the story.
Daniel Seltzer
#90. It was difficult in the beginning, in the middle and at the end.
Steve McClaren
#91. Relationships are as much a work of art as a drawing. It takes time. It takes a lot of erasing, smudging, and redoing. In the end, it's usually worth it. Sometimes, it's not.
R.K. Ryals
#92. I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
Laura Leighton
#93. Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.
Lights
#94. Machiavelli observed that 'wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please'.
Max Hastings
#95. I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking for is there, then I've already won, then we're all winners in that relationship.
Sara Quin
#96. Because of a streak of dreaminess and a gentle abstraction in his nature, Victor in any queue was always at its very end. He had long since grown used to this handicap, as one grows used to weak sight or a limp.
Vladimir Nabokov
#97. That hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense. And like that day playing psychiatrist, I occasionally worried that she was right.
Emily Giffin
#98. By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.
Barack Obama
#99. I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.
Terry Pratchett
#100. But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
Lakhdar Brahimi
