Top 100 Not End Quotes
#1. The complications of life do not end at the altar; some might say that this is where they begin.
Julian Barnes
#2. Claudia! That's not for snacking, you bitch. Livvie spanked the other girl on the ass and both of them giggled.
Girls are so strange. If another man called me a bitch and spanked me, it would not end in giggles.
C.J. Roberts
#3. Machiavelli observed that 'wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please'.
Max Hastings
#4. But evil does not die, just as history does not end. Like a weed, evil can be cut back but never entirely uprooted. It waits for its chance to spread through the cracks in our vigilance. It can take root in the fertile soil of our complacency, or even the rocky rubble of the fallen Berlin Wall.
Garry Kasparov
#5. Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it's princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because we have run out of fossil fuels. But it may end because burning these wonderful fuels puts the planet farther down a path we don't want to head down
Russell Gold
#6. By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.
Michael Specter
#7. Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Robert Smithson
#8. But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#9. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller
#10. The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
William McDonough
#11. Who does not end up a female impersonator?
Anne Carson
#12. [God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#13. Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, ...
Betty Eadie
#14. You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski
#15. I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.
Robin Jones Gunn
#16. I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.
Orson Scott Card
#17. John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.
Max Cleland
#18. Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.
Vic Fuentes
#19. You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.
Archibald Marwizi
#20. Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.
Andrew Bacevich
#21. There are many roads in this world that will guide you to pleasurable, fun, and exciting destinations that do not end in any form of lasting happiness. So before you step on an enticing path, figure out where it leads.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Leo Rosten
#25. Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.
Joan Didion
#27. every father wants to see his girls settled and not end up old maids
Sinead Moriarty
#28. Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.
John D. Arnold
#29. Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.
Fawn Germer
#30. Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. If you lose your mind, make sure it does not end up in the hands of your enemies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.
Jay Nordlinger
#33. My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.
Roque Dalton
#34. There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
Charles Baudelaire
#35. As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.
Marjorie Spiegel
#36. We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
Shane Claiborne
#37. Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.
Art Buchwald
#38. Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
Henry Ford
#39. Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
Albert Schweitzer
#41. It must live on. The revolution must not end here.
Billy Roper
#43. The story did not end at the tree. For you and your people, that is where the story begins.
Chuck Black
#45. To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.
Brandon Sanderson
#46. You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
Malcolm X
#47. The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#48. Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.
Susanna Kearsley
#49. It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
#50. Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul
#51. How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#52. If we do not accomplish it in time, what has begun with a monkey may not end with a monkey. Next even a swarm of mosquitoes may decide to challenge your authority.
R.K. Narayan
#53. Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!
Edwin Arnold
#54. The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.
P.M.H. Atwater
#55. Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike.
George Vecsey
#56. Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?
Robin Jones Gunn
#57. Life does not end when a relationship ends, just like life doesn't start when a relationship starts.
Mary Mihalic
#58. Then down came the lid
the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.
Wyndham Lewis
#59. Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.
Frances E. Willard
#60. Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence did not begin with your birth and it will not end with your death. Your soul lived before and will live on and on and on ... so what you do now matters later. Choose wisely.
Toni Sorenson
#61. We do not start as dust.
We do not end as dust.
We make more than dust.
That's all we ask of you.
Make more than dust
David Levithan
#62. She reaches out to take the jacket. I hesitate for a moment, like Frodo with his Ring, but then I remember ow much crap Frodo walked into and I'd rather not end up like Frodo. So I give it to Sage.
Ashley Poston
#63. Struggles do not end when countries attempt the transition to democracy.
Hillary Clinton
#64. Platoons and plays and stores and congresses do not end - they simply move on to a different dimension.
David Eagleman
#65. In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
G.H. Hardy
#66. Love does not end when we don't see each other.
Sarah Miles
#67. The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
#68. I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.
Halle Berry
#69. The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.
Ronnie Radke
#70. For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them
Seneca.
#71. Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.
George W. Bush
#72. I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.
Sarah Polley
#73. As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.
Montel Williams
#74. The world does not end tonight
And the fruit that we will pick tomorrow
Await us, weighing the unstripped bough.
Charles Tomlinson
#75. Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.
Lou Holtz
#76. The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
Patrick Murphy
#77. A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.
Charles Darwin
#78. As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.
Steven Chu
#79. An ending is an artificial device; we like endings, they are satisfying, convenient, and a point has been made. But time does not end, and stories march in step with time.
Penelope Lively
#80. Death does not end my life, it opens the door to a life without end.
J.R. Rim
#81. When he died he would not end. The world would end.
Don DeLillo
#82. This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
Saint Augustine
#83. I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.
Kate Zambreno
#84. Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
Horace Walpole
#85. Suicides do not end their lives because they are weak, mentally ill, or depressed - though certainly they may be all those things. They are in blinding, all-consuming psychic pain, and perhaps on that final poisonous day they can find no reason not to.
Jill Bialosky
#86. After a while there were no more tule fogs at dawn and all Charlotte wanted was one night that did not end badly.
Joan Didion
#87. I am ceaselessly waiting for you in the burning fire of waiting forever. It may not end today, tomorrow, or ever.
Debasish Mridha
#88. In other words, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America.
Bharati Mukherjee
#89. You said the words," Pyp reminded him. "Now my watch begins, you said it. It shall not end until my death." "I shall live and die at my post," Grenn added, nodding.
George R R Martin
#90. If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
H.G.Wells
#92. You have to learn that you might not end up where you wanted to be but you'll always end up where you're meant to be.
Emma Hart
#93. The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote.
Barack Obama
#94. Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be done in five days, perhaps less; and a younger generation will make a new route on the west face.
Royal Robbins
#95. Global warming will not end by Earth finding a shade under the trees but under our hands joined together
Agona Apell
#96. Our abilities and giftedness does not end of this earth; we will continue to serve the Lord in agreement with our abilities on this earth.
Paul P. Enns
#97. History does not end; it runs in cycles. The failure to defend Ukraine today is the failure of the Allies to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938. The world must act now so that Poland in 2015 will not be called on to play the role of Poland in 1939.
Garry Kasparov
#98. Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the gatekeepers of the future. The world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren will depend upon our success in building a more peaceful and decent world.
David Krieger
#99. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite' ... The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility.
Jules Verne
#100. It was only a dream. Sometimes they say that, at the end of stories, in the land where Milo was born. And then I woke up - it was only a dream.
Stories here do not end like that. I cannot wake up. I do not sleep.
Catherynne M Valente
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