Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.
If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the proper function of the organ, not an outside interruption. To some extent, then, all direction or control is a guiding of activity to its own end; it is an assistance in doing fully what some organ is already tending to do.
You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.
The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.
All -isms end up in schisms.
There is no end to the deceits of the past.
It goes back to the destiny thing. I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.
Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.
Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
A good thing never ends.
We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.
Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.