Top 1200 Finish Last Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.

The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.

I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

When I go to America, I'm fortunate enough to stay in the nicer areas but the last time I went there - to New York last October, November - I went and explored. I went to the rough areas - to Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx; I walked around and you see it first-hand, what life is like out there.

When I finish games, I want to have the feeling that I helped my team as much as I could, and the fans saw I was determined to win.

I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.

I'm of course jumping right in with the attitude that I can win the Eurovision Song Contest - or at least finish in second place!

Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

As the finish line for 2017 begins to come into focus, I'm beginning to wonder what an Uber turnaround would look like.

I'm the only person who stands in my way, whether I finish a song or if I'm, you know, struggling. So, I see myself as my own competitor.

When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in.

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.

It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those last days were filled with completely irrational ideas and behaviors that could not be explained in any way outside of a mass collapse of reason.

My grandfather, Daddy Jeff, made me promise to him that even though I'm already an actress, I'd still finish school.

I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different.

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.

Curt Hawkins gave me the Big Ending. That's been my finish for 12 years because of him.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book

There's probably nothing quite like crossing the finish line and seeing the clock read numbers that you have never seen before.

Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our body or soul go to heaven? What was the name of the book? The Da Vinci Code. Who is seated at the last supper? Well, as brilliant as Da Vinci was, he didn't know anymore about who was seated at the last super if there ever was a last super than you or I or Yogi Berra. Well, no one is bringing anything new to the table.

When I was 6 years old I went to my first A's game at the Coliseum. It was the 1982 season and the A's went on to finish fifth in the American League West that year.

For the last two years, since I left IMPACT in 2018, I've spent basically the last two years just trying to be healthy, be strong, be ready for when that opportunity comes and I sort of felt like that's what I've been putting into the universe.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish

You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Starting really hasn't been a big thing for me. I always want to be able to finish a game or play at the end.

I feel like anyone at middleweight, when I have a full training camp, I'm going to go out there and finish them. That's my mentality.

You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton.” Nick didn’t blink. “Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job.

You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.

I wish more people read hard copies of the newspaper and watched the evening news from start to finish.

For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.

If I finish my term and have inflation down to a single digit, I will be very happy. That's four years of hard work.

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

A few people have come back to me and said, "Thanks for giving me nightmares for the last few nights!" I say to them, "Well, now you know what I've been going through for the last three years!"

My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.

I do all the dirty work: play defense, grab rebounds, block shots and finish strong around the rim.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.

If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

I believe I have a lot to offer when I finish football as well. I always said I didn't want to become a manager, but I changed that view.