Finishing Quotes 

It is evident that deportations of Armenians is not motivated by military considerations, the minister of the Interior Talaat Bey recently in a conversation with Dr. Mortsmann presently in the Imperial Service, declared openly that the Porte wants to profit from the World War for radically finishing their internal enemies – the Christians before the intervention of outside powers.
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They will carry us over the finishing line every so often, and we’ll carry them over the line other times. It’s a mutual respect at the moment.

phil brown

— Oct-2011, Lancashire Evening Post
— That nearly makes sense.

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Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.

ernest hemingway

— Letter to Arthur Mizener (12 May 1950); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

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And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best.

thierry henry

— Alan Hansen

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The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.

lawrence kudlow

— Kudlow’s Money Politics blog, December 5th, 2007.

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The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.

Peter Drucker

— p. 94 (Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959))

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Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.


— Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to Arthur Mizener (12 May 1950); published in Ernest Hemingway : Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

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Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.

The Weeknd

— Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Probably one of the best things that ever happened to me was finding a little article in the Chicago Tribune that mentioned that you could go to Shimer without finishing high school. This was at a point when I was desperate to get away from home. I discovered that Shimer was a place where people were really into ideas and cared about things, not just the superficial things that people were into in high school.


— Laurie Spiegel, "Alumni Profiles: Laurie Spiegel", 2006.

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Graduation is a time of completion, of finishing, of an ending, however, it is also a time of celebration of achievement and a beginning for the new graduate.

Catherine Pulsifer

— As quoted in Here We Stand: 600 Inspiring Messages from the World's Best Commencement Addresses, by Randy Howe (2009).

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Now our time and turn is come, and perhaps the finishing stroke is reserved for us. When we look back on the dangers we have been saved from, and reflect on the success we have been blessed with, it would be sinful either to be idle or to despair.


— Thomas Paine, in The Crisis No. IV

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