- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you end up at a superior club, you will play with world-class players all over the pitch.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020