What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings. Votes: 3
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after? Votes: 3
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end. Votes: 3
A hard beginning maketh a good ending. Votes: 2
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together. Votes: 2
If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'. Votes: 2
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. Votes: 2
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending. Votes: 2
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. Votes: 2
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. Votes: 2
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need. Votes: 2
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up. Votes: 2
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition. Votes: 2
The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids. Votes: 2
The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say. Votes: 2
Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can. Votes: 2
To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures. Votes: 2
The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph. Votes: 2
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' Votes: 2
People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings. Votes: 2
Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.' Votes: 2
Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good. Votes: 0
... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones. Votes: 0
Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth. Votes: 4 Henry Cloud
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. Votes: 3 Chanakya