Quotes of: Finish-last Keyword

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Diana Nyad

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.

Work

Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or even that you'll be able to finish the particular work you've begun. It isn't easy to persist amid all that. [...] Some...

Octavia E. Butler

...I remember that my mother had always said to be polite and finish my meal. At last he gave no more struggles. The deed was done. Now the boat contained four men, not one heartbeat among us. The fate they had destined for another claimed them as we...

Strigoi

I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to California my senior year because I knew I wanted to be an actor, but I also wanted to finish school and get my degree. I took mainly a bunch of criminal...

Drew Seeley

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it’s finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or “finishing the drill” in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals...

Leading With Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

Assholes Finish First

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Markus Zusak

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

Garry Shandling

Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.

Amit Kalantri

I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

Asafa Powell

I don't believe a player is ever a finished product.

Anthony Rizzo

He who begins many things finishes but few.

Italian

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Traditional

Harry Rosenfeld: Bernstein, why don't you finish one story before trying to get on another? Carl Bernstein: I finished it. Harry Rosenfeld: The Virginia legislature story? Carl Bernstein: I finished it. Harry Rosenfeld: All right, give it to me. Carl...

All the President's Men

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Robert Smithson

We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.

Seven-Inch Vinyl: A Rock and Roll Novel

You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Neil Gaiman

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard M. Nixon

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his wid...

Great Speeches

I was just turned last week. I'm a librarian." He stilled, as if I'd just told him I was the inventor of the tube top. "I watched a movie about a librarian once. Well, she was a librarian by day, a call girl by--" I stopped him with a quick lift of a...

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs