If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates

If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage.
Jonathan Brown

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.
Edward Dyer

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
Maya Lin

In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity to finish the job in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda.
Chris Van Hollen

In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.
Joe Henderson

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
Hans Eysenck

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart

In this country, when you finish second, no one knows your name.
Frank McGuire

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.
Al Jardine

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
Jean M. Auel

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.
Paul Kane

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. Henry

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
Peter O'Toole

Last guys don't finish nice.
Saul Alinsky

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Russell Banks

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer