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Quotes About End

There is no arguing with Johnson, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of
~ Leo Damrosch
The need to fear such things was ended
~ James Salter
It has occurred to me, brother, that wisdom may not be the end to everything. Goodness and kindness are, perhaps, beyond wisdom. Is it not possible that the ultimate end is music and gaiety and a dance of joy? Wisdom is the oldest of all things. Wisdom is all head and no heart.Behold, brother, you are being crushed under the weight of your head. You are dying of old age while you are yet a child.
~ James Stephens
That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.
~ James Turner
Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~ Swahili Proverb
~ James Walsh
love is like war.... easy to start.... difficult to end... impossible to forget...
~ Jan Jansen
A week was what she wanted: a nice manageable chunk of time with a beginning, a middle, and an end, containing, if desired, a space for each of the wonders of the world, the champions of Christendom, the deadly sins, or the colours of the rainbow. (Monday was definitely yellow, Thursday a dull indigo, Friday violet. About the others she didn't feel so strongly.)
~ Jan Struther
Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some
~ Jane Austen
China has banned the eating of wild animals, and there is hope that the use of wild animal parts for medicine will also come to an end.
~ Jane Goodall
that there is such pleasure in enmity that after a while it cannot be left off even if one would will it. Another thing is also true, that when a quarrel is new, one's friends hold one back, and give cool advice, but when it is long-standing, folk put off its end and goad the rivals.
~ Jane Smiley
What if he…" But I didn't want to say die…dying was a matter for professionals, not poets.
~ Janet Fitch
You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the end itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine.
~ Janet Fitch
Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
~ Amish Tripathi
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
~ Laura Riding
I always make a point of keeping the most pleasant-sounding name for the murderer. As he or she is bound to come to an unpleasant end, it seems the very least the author can do.
~ Ngaio Marsh
I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
~ Bobby Flay
As a producer, it's not unusual to find yourself on the field, backstage, often with a camera crew and living with constant anxiety of accidentally ending up in the shot.
~ Mary Pilon
I think Dogme was inspiring for quite a few peoples and sort of started a digital movement. Personally, I found it extremely uplifting and fantastic making Dogme movies, but I felt I completed it with 'The Celebration.' I think that was the end of the road on Dogme for me. It was as far as I could go.
~ Thomas Vinterberg
I will end the Klitschko reign and cause a massive upset that will be felt around the world.
~ Dereck Chisora
A hard beginning makes a good ending.
~ John Heywood
Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"
~ George Eastman
God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
~ Philip Schaff
All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor