Completed Quotes
289 quotes by 250 authors
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You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.
— Eoin Colfer
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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though…
— Virginia Woolf
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Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd never…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person,…
— David Sedaris
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley…
— Christine Feehan
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The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't it, like, two…
— Gordon Korman
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They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
— Colum McCann
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When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies…
— Charles Baxter
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The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ...…
— Samuel R. Delany
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Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it -…
— Philip K. Dick
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We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem…
— Gary Chapman
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Sweet baby Jesus, Blue Eyes was… He was gorgeous in all the ways that made girls do stupid things. He was tall, a good head…
— Unknown Author
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There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled,…
— Linda Grant
Who Wrote These Completed Quotes
250 authors contributed a total of 289 Completed Quotes, led by these top contributors: