#final

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#assembly-line #dejan-stojanovic #final #literature #literature-quotes

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#family #finally #got #i #jobs

Six days, and I have eaten nothing. It is night. I am sitting in my chair. Ah, God! I wonder have any ever felt the horror of life that I have come to know? I am swathed in terror. I feel ever the burning of this dread growth. It has covered all my right arm and side, and is beginning to creep up my neck. To-morrow, it will eat into my face. I shall become a terrible mass of living corruption. There is no escape. Yet, a thought has come to me, born of a sight of the gun-rack, on the other side of the room. I have looked again—with the strangest of feelings. The thought grows upon me. God, Thou knowest, Thou must know, that death is better, aye, better a thousand times than This. This! Jesus, forgive me, but I cannot live, cannot, cannot! I dare not! I am beyond all help—there is nothing else left. It will, at least, spare me that final horror… … . "I think I must have been dozing. I am very weak, and oh! so miserable, so miserable and tired—tired. The rustle of the paper, tries my brain[…] ↗

— William Hope Hodgson

#ending #final-words #death

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#baby boomers #bad #bad guys #big #boomers

I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#beginning #constructive #during #final #fresh

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#authority #china #clear #communists #concerned

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

#experience #finally #get #great #know

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#became #choices #dates #down #evenings

I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#commitment #communities #congress #constituents #enforcement

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted. ↗

— Max von Laue

#aware #been #before #difficulties #doubt