#complete

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#completely #everything #fast #scrambled #small

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#completed #copiously #force #mobilization #most

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#characteristics #completely #cut #dream #friends

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#absolutely nothing #best #completely #generation #hope

I may have survived, but I am broken," I remind him sadly. "No, Sunny, you're just a bit battered. We both are. Or if we're broken, that's only when we're alone. But now we're together, baby! And together, we're both whole. ↗

— Olivia Lynde

#completeness #love #love

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#finished #incomplete #love #love is #man

People that complete other people's vision are understated. ↗

— Bjork

#other #people #understated #vision

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#doubt #earth #enemy #heaven #hence

I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#awkward #braces #complete #court #ever

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#bronx #childhood #college #complete #early