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Quotes About Conclusion

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box'.
~ James Kerr
in spite of how we know the story unfolded, God included mankind in His conclusion that all He created was good.
~ James MacDonald
Titles are given at the end of play, names at the beginning.
~ James P. Carse
a finite game is to be won by someone it must come to a definitive end. It will come to an end when someone has won. We know that someone has won the game when all the players have agreed who among them is the winner. No other condition than the agreement of the players is absolutely required in determining who has won the game.
~ James P. Carse
To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself. There
~ James P. Carse
Infinite play remains invisible to the finite observer. Such viewers are looking for closure, for the ways in which players can bring matters to a conclusion and finish whatever remains unfinished. They are looking for the way time has exhausted itself, or will soon do so. Finite players stand before infinite play as they stand before art, looking at it, making a poiema of it.
~ James P. Carse
In order to be a sound argument, however, two things are necessary: The argument must be valid, and its premises must be true.
~ James Rachels
El error fundamental en el argumento de las diferencias culturales es que trata de sacar una conclusión sustantiva acerca de un tema del mero hecho de que hay un desacuerdo acerca de él.
~ James Rachels
Death is the ultimate disappointment.
~ James Randi
Well, anyway, that's it, we just ran out of time cause I have to be done at 5.40 right now, and it is exactly 5.40.
~ James Rolfe
The board is clearing. The old game is almost played, and the pieces broken.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.
~ Douglas Adams
Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.
~ Douglas Adams
It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.
~ Douglas Adams
Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
~ Douglas Adams
Well, Gordon's great insight was to design a program which allowed you to specify in advance what decision you wished it to reach, and only then to give it all the facts. The program's task, which it was able to accomplish with consummate ease, was simply to construct a plausible series of logical-sounding steps to connect the premises with the conclusion.
~ Douglas Adams
It is a capital mistake to develop a premature hypothesis in the absence of hard data.
~ Douglas Preston
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...
~ Agatha Christie
Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.
~ Agatha Christie
In the end is my beginning… That's a quotation I've often heard people say.
~ Agatha Christie
But rest assured, my indications will lead you to the truth." He paused. Then he said: "And perhaps, then, you would wish that they had not led you so far. You would say instead: 'Ring down the curtain.
~ Agatha Christie
Then,' said Poirot, 'having placed my solution before you, I have the honour to retire from the case…
~ Agatha Christie
It´s true, isn´t it? We´re all waiting for the end.
~ Agatha Christie
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
~ Alan Arkin