Completed Quotes
289 quotes by 250 authors
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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long…
— Tom Wolfe
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Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be…
— Rajneesh
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NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a…
— Charles de Lint
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So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run…
— Annie Dillard
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The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who…
— Tim Wise
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A book is not completed till it's read.
— Salman Rushdie
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The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
— Sarah Dessen
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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features…
— Sarah Dessen
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Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin…
— Dale Carnegie
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Why try to pursue what is completed?
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must…
— Mortimer Adler
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well,…
— R A Salvatore
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One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I…
— Henry Rollins
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The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.
— Paulo Coelho
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I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
— E. M. Forster
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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake…
— Oscar Wilde
Who Wrote These Completed Quotes
250 authors contributed a total of 289 Completed Quotes, led by these top contributors: