Finish Quotes
1334 Finish quotes by 1048 unique authors
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Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
— Neil Gaiman
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But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I…
— Caitlin Moran
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THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start…
— William Carlos Williams
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If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.
— Kim Harrison
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There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.
— Jim Crace
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I also had to come tonight to apologize. If you need to go to Mexico to finish this process off, then I understand. I was…
— Richelle Mead
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When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?
— Lynda Barry
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Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I…
— Alice Hoffman
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As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match…
— Jung Chang
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Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it…
— Ann Hood
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If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute,…
— Raymond Carver
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Let's pick it up," the man behind her said. "How many more of the tranquilizers do you have?" "Just three," the girl panted. "Gonna have…
— Marissa Meyer
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As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when…
— Adam Young
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling,…
— Dave Eggers
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If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux…
— Edward Gorey
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I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.
— Rainbow Rowell
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Nothing,” I said. “I’m just…” I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. “I’m just very, very fond of you.
— John Green
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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
— Garry Shandling
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
— Katharine Hepburn
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I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at…
— Bill Gates
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives…
— Charles Kettering
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