Winding Up Quotes

• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Adventure

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

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• Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Night, Toil

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.506, Wordsworth Editions

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• Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivation, Procrastination, Unfinished Business

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 01, 2011

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• There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Two, Dying, Eternity

  Frederick William Robertson (1880). “"The Human Race" and Other Sermons: Preached at Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton”

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• Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

  William James

  Fall, Wind, Suffering

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

  Simon Schama

  Sorting Out, Stories, Truthful

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• My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

  Damian Kulash

  Ideas, Unexpected, Stumbling

  "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Men, Self

  VLADIMIR NABOKOV' (1965). “THE EYE”

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• The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

  Charles Babbage

  Half, Four, Wheels

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.38

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• The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Wife, Teeth

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.34, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

  Havelock Ellis

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!

  Lewis Carroll

  Friendly, Dozen, Letters

  Lewis Carroll (1908). “Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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• Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series

  Stuart Kauffman

  Numbers, Eight, Pairs

  Stuart Kauffman (1996). “At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity”, p.151, Oxford University Press

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• I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.

  Andy Cohen

  Dream, Kids, Eye

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• Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Media, Littles

  Song: Drift Away

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• It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sleep, Men, Clock

  "Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer".

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• Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans and expectations. It is a separation from all we have loved and lived with. It is often accompanied by much bodily pain and distress. It opens the door to judgement and eternity - to heaven or to hell. It is an event after which there is no change, or space for repentance.

  J. C. Ryle

  Pain, Doors, Space

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• To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Home, Noble, Calling

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• "Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Mother, Fear, Rain

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• Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is the warfare that commenced in heaven, that has existed through all time, and that will continue until the winding up scene, until He reigns whose right it is to reign, when He shall come in clouds of glory to reward every man according to the deeds done in the body.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Men, Clouds, Light

  Wilford Woodruff, Brian H. Stuy (1987). “Collected Discourses: 1886-1889”

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  The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Heart, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

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• One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Team, Knowing

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• The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.212

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