A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
Maimonides

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
Neil Armstrong

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Theodor Geisel

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
Theodor Geisel

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
Larry David

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Rita Mae Brown

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Drew Barrymore

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.
Jay London