- Nov 07, 2020
End Quotes
How things end - in war, in careers, in conscience.
This collection leans heavily historical, comparing a lost war to a chess endgame and recalling a family home destroyed during World War II. For quotes specifically about final outcomes and results, see End Result quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my essay for 'The Good Immigrant,' I write about how concerns about race and immigration crept up on me a bit because of how I grew up and my background - I was quite fortunate, really; I never got the rough end of the stick with a lot of that kind of stuff.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020