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Quotes About End

Six pints of bitter.' said Ford Prefect to the barman of the Horse and Groom. 'And quickly please, the world's about to end.
~ Douglas Adams
This," he said, "really is the absolute end, the final chilling desolation, in which the whole majestic sweep of creation becomes extinct. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the proverbial 'it.' " He dropped his voice still lower. In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear its throat. "After this," he said, "there is nothing. Void. Emptiness. Oblivion. Absolute nothing….
~ Douglas Adams
similar to that which Macbeth had towards murdering people – initial doubts, followed by cautious enthusiasm and then greater and greater alarm at the sheer scale of the undertaking and still no end in sight.
~ Douglas Adams
Yeah, could you just sort of keep this robot with you and guard this end of the passageway. Okay?" "Guard?" said Arthur. "What from? You just said there's no one here." "Yeah, well, just for safety, okay?" said Zaphod. "Whose? Yours or mine?
~ Douglas Adams
Milliways!" said Ford. "Yes, sir," said the waiter, laying on the patience with a trowel, "this is Milliways—the Restaurant at the End of the Universe." "End of what?" said Arthur.
~ Douglas Adams
uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of
~ Douglas Adams
Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over.
~ Douglas Preston
I wish you'd told me I was going to be piloting a Yellow Submarine." "To what end? It would only have worried you. These DSVs are idiotproof.
~ Douglas Preston
If Albuquerque was the ugly, dusty ass end of nowhere, then Farmington was the inflamed boil on that ass. If
~ Douglas Preston
Intuition, Pendergast knew, was the end result of the most sophisticated kind of reasoning.
~ Douglas Preston
Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over. No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.
~ Douglas Preston
Sweet is a grief well ended.
~ Aeschylus
Time is the best killer.
~ Agatha Christie
He laughs best who laughs at the end.
~ Agatha Christie
That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.
~ Agatha Christie
A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.
~ Agatha Christie
In the end is my beginning… That's a quotation I've often heard people say.
~ Agatha Christie
General Macarthur said sharply: 'Of course it won´t come. We´re counting on the motor-boat to take us off the island. That´s the meaning of the whole business. We´re not going to leave the island...None of us will ever leave...It´s the end, you see-the end of everything...
~ Agatha Christie
Fiecare om are un motiv personal ca s? moar?.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler.
~ Aimé Césaire
At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.
~ Aimé Césaire
Yahweh accepts that man has a history, but he strives to neutralize it by giving it a purpose, which is precisely the return to the pre-historical state of paradisiacal "innocence." (Yahweh only accepts history in order to assign it an end.)
~ Alain de Benoist
Aristotle is often quoted as saying that a story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's true, but I don't think that's the whole story. After all, a dead cat has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
~ Alan Alda
Goals are not the same as tasks or activities. A goal is an expectation of an end condition, whereas both activities and tasks are intermediate steps (at different levels of organization) that help someone to reach a goal or set of goals.
~ Alan Cooper