Quotes about end
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Ben Carson photo

“Only God knows the beginning and the end.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 122

Chris Cornell photo
Rudyard Kipling photo
Sufjan Stevens photo

“I forgive you mother; I can hear you
And I long to be near you
But every road leads to an end”

Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

"Death With Dignity"
Lyrics, Carrie and Lowell (2015)

Robert P. George photo
Caitlín R. Kiernan photo
William Joyce photo
Aimee Mann photo

“There's always something that's smoldering somewhere
I know it don't make a difference to you
But oh! It sure made a difference to me
You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
At the other end
At the other end of the telescope.”

Aimee Mann (1960) American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)

The Other End (of the Telescope), written by Elvis Costello and Aimee Mann
Song lyrics, Everything's Different Now (1988)

Gabrielle Roy photo
Anton Mauve photo

“I am busy working on a large painting with sheep; the last days I am working with real pleasure, the weather is.... not too hot and with nice skies. It's great here!!!! I shout with joy the whole day and more and more I desire to stay here until the end.”

Anton Mauve (1838–1888) Dutch painter (1838–1888)

translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Anton Mauve, uit zijn brief:) Ik ben druk bezig aan een groot schilderij met schapen, in de laatste dagen ben ik met waar genoegen aan het werk, het weer is.. ..niet al te warm en mooie luchten. 't Is hier heerlijk!!!! Ik jubel steeds en verlang hoe langer hoe meer hier te blijven tot het einde.
In a letter of Mauve, from Laren 1885, to his student nl:Arina Hugenholtz, as quoted by Arina Hugenholtz in In Memoriam Anton Mauve; as cited in Van IJs naar Sneeuw - De ontwikkeling van het wintergezicht in de 19de eeuw, Arsine Nazarian, Juli 2008 Utrecht University; studentnummer: 0360953, p. 85
Mauve's mood was frequently moving between depression and cheerful moods, as many related people knew
1880's

Ann Coulter photo
Donald J. Trump photo

“It's very exciting we have a new president. It would have been nice if he ended with a 500 point up instead of down. It's certainly very exciting. His speech was great last night. I thought it was inspiring in every way. And, hopefully he's going to do a great job. But the way I look at it, he cannot do worse than Bush.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

"Donald Trump on President-Elect Obama: 'He Cannot Do Worse Than Bush'" Interview with Greta Van Susteren http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/11/06/donald-trump-on-president-elect-obama-cannot-do-worse-than-bush.html Fox News (6 November 2008)
2000s

Percy Bysshe Shelley photo
Vanna Bonta photo

“I followed my inspiration to an ending I couldn't yet see, and incorporated techniques of allegory and exposition, expository essay.”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)

Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

John Eardley Wilmot photo

“If once we go upon niceties of construction, we shall not know where to stop. For one nicety is made a foundation for another; and that other for a third; and so on, without end.”

John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792) English judge

Rex v. Inhabitants of Caverswall (1758), Burrow (Settlement Cases), 465.

Sue Grafton photo

“I don’t want her to have a cat because she’ll end up talking baby talk to the cat. That’s the way it is, and how can a P. I. do that?”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

On why Kinsey Millhone, the private-investigator heroine of her popular series of mystery novels, will never have a cat.
New York Times, p. C10 (August 4, 1994)

Pierce Brown photo
Bel Kaufmanová photo
Richard Koch photo

“In 1897, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) noticed a regular pattern in distributions of wealth or income, no matter the country or time period concerned. He found that the distribution was extremely skewed toward the top end: A small minority of the top earners always accounted for a large majority of the total wealth. The pattern was so reliable that Pareto was eventually able to predict the distribution of income accurately before looking at the data.
Pareto was greatly excited by his discovery, which he rightly believed was of enormous importance not just to economics but to society as well. But he managed to enthuse only a few fellow economists….
Pareto's idea became widely known only when Joseph Moses Juran, one of the gurus of the quality movement in the twentieth century, renamed it the "Rule of the Vital Few." In his 1951 tome The Quality Control Handbook, which became hugely influential in Japan and later in the West, Juran separated the "vital few" from the "trivial many," showing how problems in quality could be largely eliminated, cheaply and quickly, by focusing on the vital few causes of these problems. Juran, who moved to Japan in 1954, taught executives there to improve quality and product design while incorporating American business practices into their own companies. Thanks to this new attention to quality control, between 1957 and 1989, Japan grew faster than any other industrial economy.”

Richard Koch (1950) German medical historian and internist

Introduction
The 80/20 Individual (2003)

James A. Garfield photo

“Mister Speaker, let us learn a lesson from the dealing of God with the Jewish nation. When his chosen people, led by the pillar of cloud and fire, had crossed the Red Sea and traversed the gloomy wilderness with its thundering Sinai, its bloody battles, disastrous defeats, and glorious victories; when near the end of their perilous pilgrimage they listened to the last words of blessing and warning from their great leader before he was buried with immortal honors by the angel of the Lord; when at last the victorious host, sadly joyful, stood on the banks of the Jordan, their enemies drowned in the sea or slain in the wilderness, they paused and made solemn preparation to pass over and possess the land of promise. By the command of God, given through Moses and enforced by his great successor, the ark of the covenant, containing the tables of the law and the sacred memorials of their pilgrimage, was borne by chosen men two thousand cubits in advance of the people. On the further shore stood Ebal and Gerizim, the mounts of cursing and blessing, from which, in the hearing of all the people, were pronounced the curses of God against injustice and disobedience, and his blessing upon justice and obedience. On the shore, between the mountains and in the midst of the people, a monument was erected, and on it were written the words of the law, 'to be a memorial unto the children of Israel forever and ever.”

James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)

1860s, Speech in the House of Representatives (1866)

Venus Williams photo

“He is exaggerating, for sure—130 mph approaches the high end for the likes of Sampras.”

Venus Williams (1980) American tennis player

Sports Illustrated writer Ian Thomsen in response to Richard Williams asserting that Venus could hit a 130 mph serve. Her record is 129 mph, the second fastest female speed of all time.
Thomsen, Ian (April 6, 1998), "Changing of the guard". Sports Illustrated. 88 (14):64
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Ervin László photo
Ursula K. Le Guin photo
Henryk Sienkiewicz photo
Peter Sloterdijk photo
Dorothy Thompson photo

“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

A comment regarding her divorce from Sinclair Lewis, quoted by Vincent Sheean in Dorothy and Red (1963)

Joey Comeau photo
Max Brooks photo
Honoré de Balzac photo

“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”

Source: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 3: Seraphita - Seraphitus.

James K. Morrow photo
David Fleming photo
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi photo
Bob Seger photo
Imre Kertész photo
Valentino Braitenberg photo
George William Curtis photo

“And are there no laws of moral health? Can they be outraged and the penalty not paid? Let a man turn out of the bright and bustling Broadway, out of the mad revel of riches and the restless, unripe luxury of ignorant men whom sudden wealth has disordered like exhilarating gas; let him penetrate through sickening stench the lairs of typhus, the dens of small-pox, the coverts of all loathsome disease and unimaginable crimes; let him see the dull, starved, stolid, lowering faces, the human heaps of utter woe, and, like Jefferson in contemplating slavery a hundred years ago in Virginia, he will murmur with bowed head, 'I tremble for this city when I remember that God is just'. Is his justice any surer in a tenement-house than it is in a State? Filth in the city is pestilence. Injustice in the State is civil war. 'Gentlemen', said George Mason, a friend and neighbor of Jefferson's, in the Convention that framed the Constitution, 'by an inscrutable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins by national calamities'. 'Oh no. gentlemen, it is no such thing', replied John Rutledge of South Carolina. 'Religion and humanity have nothing to do with this question. Interest is the governing principle with nations'. The descendants of John Rutledge live in the State which quivers still with the terrible tread of Sherman and his men. Let them answer! Oh seaports and factories, silent and ruined! Oh barns and granaries, heaps of blackened desolation! Oh wasted homes, bleeding hearts, starving mouths! Oh land consumed in the fire your own hands kindled! Was not John Rutledge wrong, was not George Mason right, that prosperity which is only money in the purse, and not justice or fair play, is the most cruel traitor, and will cheat you of your heart's blood in the end?”

George William Curtis (1824–1892) American writer

1860s, The Good Fight (1865)

Helmut Kohl photo

“The crucial thing is what comes out at the end.”

Helmut Kohl (1930–2017) former chancellor of West Germany (1982-1990) and then the united Germany (1990-1998)

Entscheidend ist, was hinten rauskommt.
In a press conference on August 31, 1984; cited in DER SPIEGEL (September 3, 1984)

David Lloyd George photo
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury photo

“If they will abandon the habit of mutilating, murdering, robbing, and of preventing honest persons who are attached to England from earning their livelihood, they may be sure there will be no demand for coercion. Well, you will be told you have no alternative policy. My alternative policy is that Parliament should enable the Government of England to govern Ireland. Apply that recipe honestly, consistently, and resolutely for 20 years, and at the end of that time you will find that Ireland will be fit to accept any gifts in the way of local government or repeal of coercion laws that you may wish to give her. What she wants is government—government that does not flinch, that does not vary—government that she cannot hope to beat down by agitations at Westminster—government that does not alter in its resolutions or its temperature by the party changes which take place at Westminster.”

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician

Speech to the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in St. James's Hall, London (15 May 1886), quoted in The Times (17 May 1886), p. 6. The Liberal MP John Morley responded https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1886/jun/03/tenth-night#S3V0306P0_18860603_HOC_120 by claiming that Salisbury was in favour of "20 years of coercion" for Ireland, which Salisbury contested https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1886/jun/04/personal-explanation#S3V0306P0_18860604_HOL_10.
1880s

Edmund Spenser photo

“Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.”

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) English poet

The last line of each stanza
This is often attributed to T. S. Eliot, who does indeed quote it in The Waste Land
Prothalamion (1596)

Susan Cooper photo

“Strong as a young lion, pliant as a loving woman, and bitter to the taste, as all enchantment in the end must be.”

Susan Cooper (1935) English fantasy writer

Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), Silver on the Tree (1977), Chapter 14 “Caer Wydyr” (p. 190)

Enoch Powell photo
Salman al-Ouda photo
Julian of Norwich photo
Thomas Bailey Aldrich photo

“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) American poet, novelist, editor

Leaves From a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers (1903) p. 29.

Larry Niven photo
Bob Dylan photo

“Oh Mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again?”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Coretta Scott King photo

“If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.”

Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

As quoted in New Woman, Vol. 16, No. 4 (April 1986), p. 20

John Ruysbroeck photo

“All our ways end in superessential Being”

John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic

Arthur Versluis, Theosophia: Hidden Dimensions of Christianity p. 42

John Steinbeck photo

“One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: “Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.””

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

“The Mail I’ve Seen” Saturday Review (3 August 1956)

Daniel J. Boorstin photo
Carlo Rovelli photo
River Phoenix photo
Nas photo

“Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.”

Nas (1973) American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur

"Nas Is Like"
On Albums, I Am... (1999)

Kazuo Ishiguro photo
Frank Stella photo
Winston S. Churchill photo
Vincent Van Gogh photo
Chris Carrabba photo
Erasmus Darwin photo
Kofi Annan photo

“There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity.”

Kofi Annan (1938–2018) 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations

Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY, Who Will End Violence? http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2000448?q=Kofi+Annan&p=par

Francis Bacon photo
Donald J. Trump photo
Johannes Grenzfurthner photo

“Did you know that if you removed all nerve cells from your brain and laid them out end-to-end in a straight line, you would die?”

Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director

from documentary Traceroute

Prince photo
Samuel Butler (poet) photo

“Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.”

Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist

Canto III, line 1011
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

William Lane Craig photo
Calvin Coolidge photo
Jane Roberts photo

“There are no ends that must be accomplished by any given personality, no ends that must be gained by a personality for the entity.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Session 95, Page 62
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 3

Richard Stallman photo

“Nobody deserves to have to die — not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.”

Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

Richard Stallman's dissenting view on Steve Jobs http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/steve-jobs-stallman-dissenting-view.html in The Los Angeles Times (8 October 2011)
2010s

Neal Stephenson photo
Louis Bromfield photo
Learned Hand photo

“In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.”

Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge

Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture delivered at Harvard (1958); quoted in The Rhetoric of Our Times (1969) by J. Jeffery Auer, p. 124.
Extra-judicial writings

Jair Bolsonaro photo
Adam Smith photo

“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII.

Peter Weiss photo
John F. Kennedy photo
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon photo

“My God, my Father, and my Friend,
Do not forsake me at my end.”

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637–1685) Irish poet

Translation of Dies Iræ.

Jane Addams photo
Marianne Moore photo
Franklin D. Roosevelt photo
E.L. Doctorow photo
Shane Claiborne photo
Dejan Stojanovic photo

“In the end, the world returns to a grain.”

“A Grain,” p. 47
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Grain”

Henry Miller photo
Mark Steyn photo
Helen Nearing photo
H. G. Wells photo
George Reisman photo

“If the individual is a means to the ends of the State, so too, of course, is his property. Just as he is owned by the State, his property is also owned by the State.”

George Reisman (1937) American economist

“Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian,” lecture delivered at the Mises Institute’s “The Economics of Fascism: Supporters Summit 2005” in Auburn, Alabama (October 8, 2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsaG-pJ_4RA&list=PLOCWSOHhjJPUQ9kkhBKV9js9tFJTPp3yC&index=3&t=0s