I Quotes
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“In the end, nothing is bad in believing if saves you.”
Source: Blue House: Ten Years on The Way Home
“In the end, nothing is certain but that the voice will go on trying to put a life together and make sense of it until death calls time on the tale.”
“In the end of 2012 no one looks back on this year and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep”
“In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make.”
“In the end of the film there is hope, ... There's beauty in ugliness. It's really important for us Latinos to acknowledge each other and not deny the reality, because our reality is fascinating.”
“In the End of the story everyone feels unpleasant and unworthy.”
“In the end, one detail is unarguable: There will always be those searching for treasure. Never forget: We are a country founded on legends and myths. We love them, especially legends of treasure. Looking for treasure isn't just part of being an American, it is America.”
Source: History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
“In the end one only experiences oneself.”
“In the end only kindness matters.”
“In the end, only something endowed with mystery is worthy of love. It is impossible to love something stripped of mystery; at best it would be a thing one uses as one sees fit.”
“In the end,
Only the true ones stay beside you...
while the rest fly away.
As if Life is trying to let you...
see, the ashes!”
“In the end, only the truth will survive.”
“In the end, only you can care about you.”
“In the end — or maybe even at the start — we all share one truth: death.
It doesn’t matter how rich you are.
How kind. How broken. How brilliant.
Death is the one door we all walk through.
You can’t hide from it.
You can’t bargain with it.
And you can’t bring anything with you when you go —
except your legacy.
So what will yours be?
When your time here is over,
When the dust settles,
And the world keeps spinning without you —
What will they remember?
Not the things you owned.
Not the titles.
Not the followers.
But the way you made people feel.
The courage you showed.
The love you gave.
The cycle you chose to break.
The healing you sparked.
So ask yourself —
What’s the one thing you want to be remembered for after death?
And then live every day like that answer matters.”
“In the end, parts of us differ from American pop stars. Because our DNA is just different.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“In the end, people are only able to think and feel within the limits of the "system", the specific culture of the society they belong to. Notions like artistic value and beauty are inevitably shackled by that system, and even the words we use are dictated by it.”
Source: The Mill House Murders
“In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.”
Source: The Third Kingdom
“In the end, people generally regret the things they didn't do, not the things they did.
(p. 96, Trevor Benson)”
Source: The Return
“In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”
“In the end, people will come to see the real you, so don’t pretend to be more than you are.”
“In the end, reading had taught her an even more important lesson – one in kindness and empathy.”
Source: The Booklover's Library
“In the end, she realized that anytime you weren't fucking for fun, regardless of what you told yourself, honey, it was hooking.”
Source: Heat
“In the end, she simply sighed, shaking her head as if he were a hopeless cause. “Surely you realize that a lady wants to be married for more important reasons than the procuring of heirs.”
Source: Duke of Debauchery
“In the end she was here and he was free. She had done every thing she could. And he didn't even know.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“In the end, since it has become easier than ever to make anything popular and appear to be more than it truly is, the time you take to prove and research that popularity may help you avoid mistakes and missteps while keeping you from being fooled by the fools.”
“In the end, so long as love is present, we will not miss out. Love attracts love and it is always rewarded. We must trust that our love will inevitably return to us, even if we cannot demand in which way and at what time we will have it returned.”
Source: Love's Longing
“In the end, 'so long, Martin,' is what she had yearned to say all along, and there was more satisfaction in it than any elaborate revenge fantasy she could have conjured. They were headed in different directions, and this was sufficient.”
Source: Gods of Jade and Shadow
“In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
“In the end soulmates always end up together, regardless of the routes taken in opposite directions.
Once a soul connection is made, the heart has a hard time replacing or letting go.
And the universe always guides a cosmic story, fighting endlessly to help re align those you're supposed to walk alongside.”
“In the end, success isn’t what truly defines life. The hardships quietly fade, while the sweetest moments remain—leaving us to close our eyes with a calm smile, holding only what truly mattered.”
“In the end, taking a chance is about embracing life and all of its possibilities. It's about being open to new experiences and opportunities, and having the courage to persue them. So go ahead, take that chance- you never know where it might lead you.”
“In the end, that’s what Kevin has never forgiven us. He may not resent that we tried to impose a curtain between himself and the adult terrors lurking behind it. But he does powerfully resent that we led him down the garden path—that we enticed him with the prospect of the exotic. (Hadn’t I myself nourished the fantasy that I would eventually land in a country that was somewhere else?) When we shrouded our grown-up mysteries for which Kevin was too young, we implicitly promised him that when the time came, the curtain would pull back to reveal—what? Like the ambiguous emotional universe that I imagined awaited me on the other side of childbirth, it’s doubtful that Kevin had formed a vivid picture of whatever we had withheld from him. But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules, nothing.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“In the end, the actions of such liberals have the effect---again unwittingly---of continuing to cover for the goals of the extreme Left. Yet again, the soft Left is helping to conceal the hard Left, whether it realizes it or not.”
Source: Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
“In the end, the answer is the men. They have to do the work. Why do we tie ourselves in knots to avoid saying this one simple truth? It's a daily and repetitive and eternal truth, and it's a dangerous truth, because if we press this point we can blow our households to pieces, we can take our families apart, we can spoil our great love affairs. This demand is enough to destroy almost everything we hold dear. So we shut up and do the work.
No single task is ever worth the argument. Scrub a toilet, wash a few dishes, respond to the note from the teacher, talk to another mother, buy the supplies. Don't make a big deal out of everything. Don't make a big deal out of anything. Never mind that, writ large, all these minor chores are the reason we remain stuck in this depressing hole of pointless conversations and stifled accomplishment. Never mind that we are still, after all these waves of feminism and intramural arguments among the various strains of womanhood, treated like a natural resource that can be guiltlessly plundered. Never mind that the kids are watching. If you mind you might go crazy.
Cooking and cleaning and childcare are everything. They are the ultimate truth. They underpin and enable everything we do. The perpetual allocation of this most crucial and inevitable work along gender lines sets women up for failure and men for success. It saps the energy and burdens the brains of half the population.
And yet honest discussion of housework is still treated as taboo.”
“In the end, the best way to approach Chuang Tzu, I believe, is not to attempt to subject this thought to rational and systematic analysis, but to read and reread his words until one has ceased to think of what he is saying and instead has developed an intuitive sense of the mind moving behind the words, and of the world in which it moves.”
“In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the “gun culture” if you will.”
Source: Gun Safety in the Home
“In the end, the goal isn’t to convert or deconvert but to coexist. Evidence is a tool, not a weapon. It can guide us toward understanding, but it’s empathy that helps us walk across the bridge.”
Source: Humanism from the Heart: Building Bridges Beyond Belief
“In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.”
“In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.”
Source: Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
“In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.”
Source: Paper Towns
“In the end, the monsters did possess the better stories.”
“In the end, the only thing that a life unreclaimed by God can claim is that it has nothing to claim despite claims to the contrary.”
“In the end the only thing that you can have on your side is time. The only way to gain time is by living it. And if I live expending my energy worrying about other people's perceptions, then I'm missing my moment.”
“In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the monster you used to be...”
Source: A Rogue Element
“In the end the privatisation of war is not acceptable. We shouldn't be issuing these sub-contracts to these contracting companies because the people who run them are making millions. There should be no relationship between ex-politicians and them, like John Reid and Malcolm Rifkind, who are now associated with contracting companies having been ministers of defence. That's unacceptable.”
“In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.”
“In the end, the purpose of evangelization is not to ‘make converts’ or ‘fill the pews’ but simply to open doors –to let others know the Good News that Catholic faith has made a positive difference in our lives and that God’s love is available to others as well”
Source: Great Catholic Parishes: A Living Mosiac: How Four Essential Practices Make Them Thrive
“In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.”
“In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.”