As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.
My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.
I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
My dad actually taught me how to do the catwalk because he used to do modeling. He taught me how to do that little swivel at the end.
Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
