The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
Roland Barthes

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.
Igor Stravinsky

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
George Burns

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.
Jack Vance

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

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.
Gerry Adams

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
J. K. Rowling

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.
Jimmy Fallon

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
Sam Kinison

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.
Donald McKay

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.
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
Bob Woodward

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
Gerry Adams

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
Mahmoud Abbas

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.
Dennis Cardoza

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
William Dean Howells

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.
George P. Baker

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

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