Loose Ends Quotes:

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Love, Recovery, Self, Reciprocity, Inspirational Romance

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

- Zelda Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Positive, Romantic, Inspirational Romance, Matters Of The Heart

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Life, Death, Rip, Call Of Duty, Loose Ends

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

- Zelda Fitzgerald

source: "Tragic, fascinating, brilliant - life of 'wild child' Zelda Fitzgerald revisited" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2016.

topic: Love, Life, Meaningful, Lady Love, Loose Ends

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1025, Delphi Classics

topic: Blow, Wind, Way, Loose Ends

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Men, Lasting Friendship, My Friendship

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

- Herbert Hoover

source: "The Big Book of Presidents: From George Washington to Barack Obama". Book by Nancy J. Hajeski, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Loose Ends

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

- Grant Morrison

topic: Real, Plot, Ends, Loose Ends, Denouement

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

- Ann Landers

topic: Successful, Thinking, Two, Loose Ends

Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

- Iris Murdoch

topic: Art, Opportunity, Order, Reckoning, Loose Ends

There are always loose ends in real life.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Life, Real, Ends, Loose Ends

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....

- Max Beerbohm

source: "Lytton Strachey". Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

topic: Art, Work, Past, Loose Ends

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

- Abel Ferrara

source: "Dwight Howard: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2011.

topic: Laughing, Looks, Hardest, Loose Ends, Hardest Thing To Do

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

- David Spade

topic: Loose Ends

Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

- Hoda Kotb

source: Hoda Kotb (2011). “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

topic: Perfect, May, Ends, Loose Ends

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

- David Strathairn

topic: Thinking, Energy, Film, Loose Ends

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

- Charles Caleb Colton

topic: Love, Friendship, Heartbreak, Eternal Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

- Leighton Meester

source: "Outtakes from Leighton Meester's February Cover Shoot". Slide 4, www.seventeen.com. January 03, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Healthy, How You Feel, Loose Ends, Relationships Ending

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Ambition, Ends, Loose Ends

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

- Flannery O'Connor

topic: Life, Views, Too Much, Softness, Loose Ends

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

- Zelda Fitzgerald

topic: Writing, Men, Ends, Loose Ends

No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.

- Julie Ann Barnhill

source: Julie Ann Barnhill (2011). “Confessions of an Imperfect Mom: God's Path to Less Guilt and More Grace”, p.103, Harvest House Publishers

topic: Mom, Children, Motherhood, Loose Ends

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

- A.C. Grayling

source: "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

topic: Science, Maturity, Doubt, Loose Ends

I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes help me quite a bit when I'm feeling at loose ends and not sure of what to work on next.

- Christine Sneed

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Notebook, Couple, Character, Loose Ends

...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

- Jeremy Clarkson

topic: Ideas, Bored, Kind, Herpes, Loose Ends

You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.

- Jonny Lang

topic: Song, Mind, Able, Loose Ends

I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

- Chris Lowell

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Directors, Answers, Used, Loose Ends, Good Directors

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.

- Stephen Beal

topic: Thinking, Painting, Ends, Loose Ends

I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

- Seth Godin

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Goal, Loose Ends

Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.

- Peter Medawar

topic: Relationship, Nature, Loss, Incoherence, Levi Strauss

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Love, Men, Ideas, Loose Ends, People Talking

If you see to it each day that your conduct is impeccable, the following day will be completely clear, and you will be free to carry out your plans, always vigilant that you leave no loose ends. In this way, each new day will find you free and well disposed.

- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

topic: New Day, Each Day, Way, Loose Ends, Each New Day

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats…these are the facts.

- Alexander Trocchi

topic: Betrayal, Writing, Journey, Loose Ends, Desertion

My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.

- Steve Martin

source: Steve Martin (2004). “The pleasure of my company”

topic: Dirty, House, Design, Loose Ends, Dirty Secrets

One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Apples, Confusion, Doe, Loose Ends

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

- Winston Churchill

source: Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

topic: Hands, Boredom, Paint, Loose Ends

I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.

- Patterson Hood

topic: Song, Writing, Thinking, Loose Ends

Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

topic: Mistake, Science, Thinking, Loose Ends