- Painting
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- 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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it.
- Nov 07, 2020
We want to chase and seal the championship title. The decisive thing is to be at the top at the end of the season.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
- In The End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soon, the Obama presidency will end, and America will have the chance to turn in a new direction.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
- End Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a number of years at my public elementary school in rural Maine, I was treated like all the other girls in school. That changed in September 2007 when a male classmate, set on a path by his grandfather, followed me into the girls' restroom. The end result was that I had to use the school's staff bathroom - just me, no one else.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a proper Essex girl because my family was part of that great exodus from the East End.
- Nov 07, 2020