Quotes About Conclusion

Certainly, 3rd acts of any movie are hard. It's always hard to have something that will give you the promises from the beginning of the movie. That's true for all movies.

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed.

The passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity's most pernicious and sterile manias.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

I don't like fights that go to decision.

I always want to do a big finale.

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.

I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.

Perhaps philosophers need arguments so powerful they set up reverberations in the brain: if the person refuses to accept the conclusion, he dies.

as a young man I thought the ideal philosophical argument was one with the following property: someone who understood its premises and did not accept its conclusion would die.

In this conclusion, Freeman suggests that naturalism is Calvinism revived, and that the appropriate answer to such a cold, hard, and fruitless philosophy is the same as it was to Calvinism proper.

Death indeed will terminate my story, but it will not conclude it; for it will make all my hopes into might-have-beens and my fears into never-minds, and so make absurd the anticipatory coherences by which I have lived. if I am to have a conclusion, it will have to be a resurection.

Ten times dead was very dead indeed.

The most reasonable place to end a book is where the next story would begin.

I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.

A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make the book happy. I decided they made it. They made it to the past. I decided the past was our world, and the future was their world. It was parallel worlds.