“ We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. ”
- Frank Moore Colby- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started. ”
- David Allen- Copy
- 796
“ But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. ”
- Paul Wiener- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school! ”
- Gene Tierney- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. ”
- Oscar Arias- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. ”
- Greg Anderson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. ”
- Peter Gabriel- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. ”
- Truman Capote- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Minerva House… was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
- 1.7K
“ For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time… ”
- Andy Rooney- Copy
- 1.5K
“ She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
- 2K
“ Men's fashions all start as sports clothes and progress to the great occasions of state. The tail coat, which started out as a hunting coat, is just finishing such a journey. The track suit is just beginning one. ”
- Angus McGill- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I'm in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. It's always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, they're going to carry me off a stage. ”
- Angela Lansbury- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Hollywood was a silver-nitrate finishing school for a whole generation with a faculty that included Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino. ”
- C. David Heymann- Copy
- 3.7K
“ When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it — a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand — as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art. ”
- Marc Chagall- Copy
- 767
“ She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. ”
- Jean Rhys- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate… ”
- Olive Schreiner- Copy
- 3.1K
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