Ending Quotes

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.