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This is not going to end well. These things never do. Out of Sight 1998 starring George Clooney & Jennifer Lopez & Ving Rhames & Steve Zahn & Don Cheadle & Albert Brooks & Dennis Farina & Luis Guzman & Isiah Washington & Nancy Allen & Keith Loneker et al, director Steven Soderbergh Lopez to Clooney
If you want a happy ending, that depends of course on where you stop your story. Orson Welles
Everything comes to an end. The Sopranos s4e1: For All Debts Public & Private starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Carmela to Tony, HBO 2002
I mean it was never going to be a happy ending. Bonded by Blood 2010 starring Tamer Hassan & Robert Fucilla & Vincent Regan & Terry Stone & Adam Deacon & Neil Maskell & Dave Legano & Johnny Palmiero & Duncan Meadows et al, director Sacha Bennett, Darren
The Germans have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill, speech London 9th November 1942
All good things must come to an end. Mid-15th century proverb
The end justifies the means. Late 16th century proverb
There must be a beginning to any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. Francis Drake, letter to Francis Walsingham 17th May 1587
In the beginning is my end. T S Eliot, Four Quartets ‘East Coker’
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. ibid. ‘Little Gidding
The end justifies the means. Hermann Bushenbaum, German clergyman
cf.
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937
So that, in the end there was no end. Patrick White, The Tree of Man, 1955
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Ecclesiastes 7:8
Kent: Is this the promised end?
Edgar: Or image of that horror? William Shakespeare, King Lear V iii 265
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. Robert Herrick, The End, 1648
I don’t look upon this like it’s the end, I look upon it like it’s moving on, you know. It’s almost like my work here's done. I can’t imagine Jesus going, ‘Oh, I've told a few people in Bethlehem I’m the son of God, can I just stay here with Mum and Dad now?’ No. You gotta move on. You gotta spread the word. You gotta go to Nazareth, please.’ And that’s, very much like ... me. The Office s2e6: Interview, Brent, BBC 2002
If we don’t end war, war will end us. H G Wells
Eternity’s a terribly thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end? Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967
They think it’s all over – it is now. Kenneth Wolstenholme, 1996 World Cup final
Our universe is definitely going to end. It’s just a question of how and when. The battle will be between two forces at the heart of the cosmos. Will gravity prevail? Or will expansion dominate and overcome? The end is coming and it could be sooner than you imagine. How the Universe Works s3e2: The End of the Universe, Discovery 2014
The universe isn’t gently advancing, its in a violent struggle. Two forces strive for control. ibid.
In the 1970s astronomers were completely stunned … the galaxies were spinning too fast, far too fast … nine-tenths of their mass was missing … They called it dark matter … Astronomers have mapped out the distribution of dark matter using gravitational lensing … Dark matter fills the universe. ibid.
The acceleration baffled the scientists … The new energy seemed to be coming from nothing … dark energy. ibid.
The universe will end in one of two ways: the Big Rip or the Big Freeze. ibid.
So when did dark energy begin to control the universe? ibid.
As space expanded, dark energy increased in comparison with it. ibid.
The universe is heading for a Big Freeze. ibid.
A spontaneous glitch in the fabric of Space/Time could trigger a Phase Transition of Space. A tiny new universe that spreads out, replacing the old. It could happen because it has happened before. ibid.
My time at Sunnyvale has come to an end. Trailer Park Boys s9e4: George Green: Industrial Cock Inhaler, Julian
I was absolutely shattered. Thank God that’s over. Finding Jack Charlton, re end of 1966 World Cup game, BBC 2021
We view growth as something positive … Economic growth is somehow supposed to continue indefinitely … If that growth fails to materialise we panic. But why? System Error: How Will Capitalism End? Amazon 2018
Growth is the fundamental principle of our economic system. Capitalism only works when the economy grows. And Karl Marx recognised something else as well: it is this growth that will eventually destroy the system itself. ibid.
‘The idea that as human beings all we want ever is more and more stuff doesn’t really stack up … How much is enough?’ ibid. Professor Tim Jackson
‘The development of capitalist production makes it constantly necessary to keep increasing the amount of capital laid out. It compels the capitalist to keep constantly expanding his capital, in order to preserve it.’ ibid. Karl Marx
The genie was out of the bottle. The brave new world of financial capitalism could no longer be constrained. And great efforts were made to sell it as a controllable and secure system. ibid.
‘The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.’ ibid. Karl Marx
For decades growth was kept on life support with debt. ibid.
‘In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour. ‘Après moi le déluge!’ is the watchword of every capitalist.’ ibid. Karl Marx
More and more people are apparently willing to sacrifice democracy, peace and the environment. ibid.
Its end is closer than we think. ibid.