It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

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.

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

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.

Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

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.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.