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Quotes About End

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts," said Francis Bacon, "but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
~ Alan Cutler
At the end of day, he looked out and saw that they were safe under ravens.
~ Alan Garner
In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
~ Alan Lightman
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
~ Alan Paton
There can be great value in imagining our hero at the end of the story. When we have confidence in our destination we are more inclined to put our hero in jeopardy.
~ Alan Watt
Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.
~ Alastair Reynolds
But it's the greater fate of the Congregation that concerns me more. Our Occupation, and how it will end. I thought it silly of Rackamore to be troubled by such a distant concern, but I find it much harder to dismiss his fears now. What is the point of any deed, good or otherwise, if this little window of civilisation of ours will soon have its end?
~ Alastair Reynolds
The stability of the Glitter Band depends on social cohesion, Mister Garlin. We don't have standing armies, we don't have a citizen militia. Even the local constabularies constitute a vanishingly small proportion of our population. But this system only functions in the absence of malicious fear-mongering. I have no time for those who disseminate lies and half-truths for their own ends.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
~ John Hodgman
At the end of my journey, I see myself as a Rocket. That's where I ended my career, and also the organization that did so much for me. They knew I had a vision, and I went to work for the owner, who's a man who believes in philanthropy and believed in me as a player.
~ Dikembe Mutombo
It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
~ Gaines Adams
Most guys with toupees overcompensate. They want too much hair. They end up piling it high, looking like a weird flower.
~ Burt Reynolds
I think piracy itself is going to end up going away.
~ Troy Carter
I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.
~ Mark Billingham
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
~ George Santayana
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.
~ Matt Taibbi
Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
~ Oriana Fallaci
We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.
~ Jim Mattis
We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
~ James Stephens
death, she still was the most
~ Rachel Hauck
It looked like all the guys were going to end up matched with someone. Well, all except for Sam. I truly couldn't imagine anyone wanting to purposely hook up with my irritating brother.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.
~ Rachel Ward
You can not escape death: the end always reach you.
~ Rachel Ward