Loose Ends Quotes

• Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, Recovery, Self

  Fulton J. Sheen (2003). “Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book”, p.73, Sophia Institute Press

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• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Rip

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Tragic, fascinating, brilliant - life of 'wild child' Zelda Fitzgerald revisited" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2016.

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• How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blow, Wind, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1025, Delphi Classics

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• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Friendship, Real Friends, Men

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

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• About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Big Book of Presidents: From George Washington to Barack Obama". Book by Nancy J. Hajeski, 2015.

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• Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Plot, Ends

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• The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

  Ann Landers

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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• Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Opportunity, Order

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• There are always loose ends in real life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Real, Ends

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• The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

  Max Beerbohm

  Wise, Art, Work

  "Lytton Strachey". Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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• It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

  Abel Ferrara

  Laughing, Looks, Things To Do

  "Abel Ferrara On “go Go Tales”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. October 8.

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• I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

  David Spade

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

  Hoda Kotb

  Perfect, May, Ends

  Hoda Kotb (2011). “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

  David Strathairn

  Thinking, Energy, Film

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• Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Friendship, Heartbreak

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.351

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• I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

  Leighton Meester

  Thinking, Healthy, How You Feel

  "Outtakes from Leighton Meester's February Cover Shoot". Slide 4, www.seventeen.com. January 03, 2011.

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• When ambition ends, happiness begins.

  Thomas Merton

  Ambition, Ambitious, Ends

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• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Views, Too Much

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• It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Writing, Men, Ends

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• No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.

  Julie Ann Barnhill

  Mom, Children, Motherhood

  Julie Ann Barnhill (2011). “Confessions of an Imperfect Mom: God's Path to Less Guilt and More Grace”, p.103, Harvest House Publishers

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• Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

  A.C. Grayling

  Science, Maturity, Doubt

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes help me quite a bit when I'm feeling at loose ends and not sure of what to work on next.

  Christine Sneed

  Notebook, Couple, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ideas, Bored, Kind

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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