Quotes About Conclusion

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.

Tudo o que fazemos tem um significado, Ender concluiu. Eles rirem. Eu não rir.

Orson Scott Card

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

In short, the period following the end of World War I was not just marked by the conclusion of the war to end all wars, but also by a profound shift in the logistics of the world

I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate. – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me. Bobby

The result was an elegant conclusion: mass and energy are different manifestations of the same thing. There is a fundamental interchangeability between the two.

May I ask a question, Lucy?" "Go right ahead!" "Just why do you want to draw this line all the way around the world?" "Well, you know the old saying, Charlie Brown... You have to draw the line someplace!

Final words are hard to hear when you know for certain they are indeed final. And I knew for certain.

the management of a polity, there needs to be an end of things.

Spontaneity at all levels is guided by the goal of getting it right; being clearly "forced" to come to some conclusion is not its negation, but its highest fulfillment.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

He refused to think about how at the age of forty-eight he could conclude, without any satisfaction at all, that he'd been right his entire life for being a bitterly cynical bastard.

"Happily ever after" depends on where we choose to end the story.

But you're examining and describing the cart, and from it postulating the horse.

The speedway ends at the cemetery.

Mystery is our mind's food. If we truly said, "I have seen everything," we would conclude, as did the author of Ecclesiastes, "all is vanity.

It is a remarkable ending. On one level the story of the boy and his father is linked to the imperative of rendering a just verdict. Yet by ending within a quotation, Shawcross permits the story to stand outside its legal frame. And though Shawcross presents the act of legal judgment as a potential safeguard against future atrocity, the thrust of his conclusion asks us to look not forward but back. The final imperative that Shawcross places before the court is the duty to remember.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

The curious thing about being told to sleep on it - a phrase which here means, as I'm sure you know, 'to go to bed thinking about something and reach a conclusion in the morning' - is that you usually can't. If you are thinking over a dilemma, you are likely to toss and turn all night long, thinking over terrible things that can happen and trying to imagine what in the world you can do about it, and these circumstances are unlikely to result in any sleeping at all.