Completion Quotes

189 quotes by 175 authors

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies… — Pat Conroy
Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for… — Mary Doria Russell
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and… — Piers Anthony
I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day… — Umberto Eco
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present… — Peter Straub
What Rose brings to the Doctorâ€™s life is completion. Itâ€™s completing a circle â€“ heâ€™s male, heâ€™s alien, heâ€™s a traveler. Between the two of… — Russell T Davies
Done is better than perfect. — Sheryl Sandberg
Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion… — Mary Midgley
Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a… — Paula White
Dharma gives you the balance. It gives you the establishment into proper behavior, proper understanding, proper living, but it doesn't give you the completion of… — Nirmala Srivastava
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. — John Ruskin
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out. — E. M. Forster
In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way. — Mitch Glazer
Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to… — Hugh Howey
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out… — Erica Jong
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who… — Hank Johnson
When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition.… — Clayton M. Christensen
Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course,… — Billy Evans
Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation. — David Gross
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson

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