Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well. . . In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.
For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of sewing is ending. Now is a time for rending, not for the sake of disengaging from culture or retreating from the public square, but so that our salt does not lose its savor.
For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.
You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake. . . This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
I've come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending.
States should have the right to enact laws. . . particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.
I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film. "
The secret is to start a story near the ending.