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Quotes About Completion

After enlightenment, the laundry.
~ Josh Billings
Our books should be missing something, the finding of which makes us whole.
~ Joshua Cohen
The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
E-mail is an "opener," not a closer. Open it up first thing in the morning and you're off on a dozen different tasks. Instead, close something from the day before. Finish something first before you open something new.
~ Judith Kolberg
Our reading is always urged on by the instinct to complete what we read, which is, for some reason, one of the most universal and profound of our instincts. You
~ Julia Briggs
Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.
~ Julia Louise Woodruff
Ele se inclinou e deu um beijo de leve nos lábios dela. – Eu tenho você – murmurou –, e não vou desperdiçar nem um segundo que temos juntos. Os lábios de Kate se abriram num sorriso. – O que isso significa? – Significa que o amor não tem nada a ver com o medo de que tudo acabe, mas com encontrar alguém que o complete, que faça de você um ser humano melhor do que jamais sonhou ser.
~ Julia Quinn
But the opposite is true as well," Kate added softly. "You can't shun new challenges or hide yourself from love just because you think you might not be here to carry your dreams to completion. In the end, you'll have just as many regrets as did my father.
~ Julia Quinn
When you work on these films for so long and so intensely, when you get to the end of them, suddenly there's nothing to do.
~ Byron Howard
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.
~ Michael Connelly
I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
~ Wayne Dyer
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.
~ Evelyn Waugh
To communicate and then stop, that is the law of discourse To go far and come to an end
~ Ezra Pound
Alfonso Reyes said that one published what he had written in order to avoid spending his life correcting it: one publishes a book in order to leave it behind, one publishes a book in order to forget it.
~ Fernando Sorrentino
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
~ Fiona Apple
God's work is finished now and must manifest.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion, I give thanks for this perfect
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Thy will be done this day. Today is a day of completion. I give thanks for this perfect day. Miracle shall follow miracle, and wonders shall never cease.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.
~ Billy Graham
If this book were limited to 140 pages, it would end here.
~ Biz Stone
When we invade Afghanistan or Iraq, our responsibility does not end with military victory. Finishing the fighting is not finishing the job.
~ blair tony iv
buyout, a gift to your children, a liquidation of assets, or any of the other possible outcomes. Stage four is the transition. It begins with the completion of the deal and ends when you're fully engaged in whatever comes next. Until you've moved on—not just physically but psychologically—to a new venture, a new career, a redefined role, or even retirement, your exit isn't complete.
~ Bo Burlingham
It was the woman his finest instincts had needed to make them valid; the woman who not only gave to him, but to whom he could give; the woman of memory, of desire, of youth, of restlessness, of completion. A dream. And here, against the softspeaking bubbling water, a reality.
~ Harlan Ellison
We had reached the moment of final nightness.
~ Harlan Ellison