Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 155
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On losing his position at the Admiralty in 1915. Said to Lord Riddell, as cited in Maxims and Reflections, Chapter I (On Himself), Churchill, Houghton Mifflin Company (1947).
Early career years (1898–1929)
“To be completed is to be finished in so many ways!”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Source: Arrive at Easterwine (1971), Ch. 6
Context: Gaetan had always had a terrible finality about him. Was this his great sin — that he was already completed? I will intercede for him tonight in my own not entirely mechanical way. To be completed is to be finished in so many ways! May that twinkling man Gaetan be undone a little and saved.
“I'm finished. I trust no one, not even myself.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Remark to Nikita Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan as quoted in "Khrushchev: Notes from a Forbidden Land", http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904531-4,00.html Time, 30 November 1970, citing the publication of an installment of Khrushchev's reminiscences in Life that week. <br class="br">Contemporary witnesses
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XV - An Apparition
Context: Hidden behind the horizons, living men unite with machines and fall furiously on space. They do not see their shots. They do not know what they are doing. "You shall not know; you shall not know."
But since the cannonade is returning, they will be fighting here again. All these battles spring from themselves and necessitate each other to infinity! One single battle is not enough, it is not complete, there is no satisfaction. Nothing is finished, nothing is ever finished. Ah, it is only men who die! No one understands the greatness of things, and I know well that I do not understand all the horror in which I am.
Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., Revised Edition (1969/1993)
“I'm finished crying for Casey. I'm crying for all the other mothers.”
Cindy Sheehan (1957) American antiwar activist
while visiting http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=ARCHIVES&ID=564506446079852571&ARCHIVES=true her son's cross at the Arlington West memorial in Santa Barbara, California, on Mother's Day, May 7, 2004 <br class="br">2004
Jacob Maris (1837–1899) Dutch painter
translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
version in original Dutch / citaat van Jacob Maris, in het Nederlands: Daarentegen wordt mij verweten dat mijn schilderijen niet af zijn, hoe ik mijn lucht ook doorwerkt heb. Nu, 'af' in de gewone beteekenis van het woord is mijn werk zeker niet. Door in dien zin het af te maken, zou ik er het leven uithalen.
in Jacob Maris (1837-1899), M. van Heteren and others; as cited in 'Ik denk in mijn materie', in exhibition catalog of Teylers Museum / Museum Jan Cunen), Zwolle 2003, p. 76
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
Claude Monet, 1893; as quoted in: David W. Galenson (2009), Painting outside the Lines, p. 49
1890 - 1900
