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.
The ending is always a surprise.
If you don't get the ending you desire. . . . have faith in the magic of new beginnings.
I got a lot out of 'Brothers Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on.
Every great story deserves a great ending
There is no way forward without ending the occupation.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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!
To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.
Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.
The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.
I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
When you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear a scary sound, you're not picturing yourself getting the girl, you're not picturing yourself winning the prize and becoming a hero. What makes you scared is the fear that you're gonna die, or that something horrific is gonna happen. So while I'm not opposed to happy ending, or wherever the story is naturally supposed to go-I do end up finding that I like movies where you almost end up feel, at best, that the character survived it more than championed over it.
There is a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game. And even in terms of the ending itself, it continues to break down to some very large decisions. So it's not like a ****c game ending where everything is linear and you make a choice between a few things - it really does layer in many, many different choices, up to the final moments, where it's going to be different for everyone who plays it.
We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.
Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.
What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.