The Completionist Quotes

#1. I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.

Chris Rock

#2. People..love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.

Michael Medved

#3. There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

Maria Semple

#4. I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

Jimmy Wales

#5. I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

Joe Wright

#6. It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.

Carew Papritz

#7. I have been running for so long. Since before all this even started. Even back in the Stilts, I was a runner. Avoiding my family, my fate, anything I didn't want to feel. And I am still racing now. From those who would kill me - and those who would love.

Victoria Aveyard

#8. I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

Boris Yeltsin

#9. I love it when you talk dirty physics.

Rachel Caine

#10. Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

Stephen R. Covey

#11. Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

Steve Garvey

#12. I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.

Carine Roitfeld

#13. Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

Adam Haslett

#14. My fatherhood made me understand my parents and to honor them more for the love they gave. My sonhood was revealed to me in its own perfection and I understood the reason the Chinese so value filiality, the responsibility of the son to honor the parents.

Kent Nerburn

#15. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Henry Ward Beecher