Finished Quotes - Page 18

• Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

  Rachel Carson

  Rivers, Environmental, Causes

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• The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.

  Walt Disney

  Way, Disneyland

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• Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, America

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Jobs, Journey

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

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• We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.

  Brigham Young

  Kings, Father, Earth

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• Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

  David

  Strong, House, Failing

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• When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him. He settled for everything, and then He cried, 'It is finished.' And on the basis of that finished work, God can freely forgive, and justify completely, every poor sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Jesus, Forgiving

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• It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

  Brandon Stanton

  Reading, Different, Persons

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• When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.

  Stephen Reid

  Moving, Book, Reading

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• If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

  Beverly Cleary

  Teacher, Reading, Book

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• I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.

  Frank Gehry

  Mean, Thinking, Drawing

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• It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more firmly, the finished righteousness of Christ. And what is the school in which he learns his nothingness, his poverty, his utter destitution? The school of deep and sanctified affliction. In no other school is it learned, and under no other teacher but God. Here his high thoughts are brought low, and the Lord alone is exalted.

  Octavius Winslow

  Teacher, School, Affliction

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• I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Long, Three, Pieces

  "'This American Life,' en Español". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

  C. S. Lewis

  Drama, Reading, Doctrine

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.

  Paul Valery

  Eye, Reflection, Irritation

  "Collected Works", vol. 1,("Recollection"), 1972.

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• I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Tree, Details

  Letter to Caroline Everett, June 24, 1957.

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• Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Needs, Ends

  Science Fiction and Fantasy World Interview, www.sffworld.com. May 17, 2006.

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• The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.

  Tryon Edwards

  Beautiful, Summer, Fall

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• If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

  J. M. Ledgard

  Class, Fiction, World

  "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.

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• The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stories, Half, May

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Great Boer War”, p.13, The Floating Press

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• Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Giving, Imagination, Focus

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• I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Art, Painting, Window

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• When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

  Idries Shah

  Taken, Meat, Lions

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.72, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

  Harry Patch

  War, Fighting, Soldier

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• A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

  Robert Bresson

  Editing, Actors, Pieces

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