Incompletely Quotes

#1. We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

Anais Nin

#2. It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.

Marilynne Robinson

#3. The sweetness of the blackberries revealed itself incompletely, changing and deepening until it dissolved from the back of the tongue with the maddening hint of a greater remainder. He was left with a question he could not phrase, and a galaxy of tiny seeds that tantalized the tongue.

Chris Cleave

#4. This isn't how prophecies work ... This isn't how stories unfold ... Incompletely.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

Edward M. Lerner

#6. More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look ... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.

John Howe

#7. Do anything totally and it is finished; you will not carry a psychological memory of it. Do anything incompletely and it hangs with you.

Osho

#8. Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Dinesh D'Souza

#9. None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine ... I think I understand them thoroughly.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#10. Oh not that I was ever even incompletely deaf.

Samuel Beckett

#11. We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

Egon Friedell

#12. I sink to my knees
And pray for your karma
to be much harder on you
than I could ever be.

Hayley Stumbo

#13. There might be some people who can stop you temporarily, but you are the only one who can do it permanentely.

Anonymous

#14. Creation is always happening. Every time and individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts.

Michael Beckwith

#15. One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.

Pema Chodron

#16. What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more.

Robert Murray McCheyne

#17. You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

Germany Kent

#18. your experience of conflict or peace is the result of your choice of thought system and not of what seems to be happening to the personal self.

Elizabeth Cronkhite

#19. What a great time to be born, what a great time to be alive, because this generation gets to completely change this world.

Paul Hawken

#20. Black people use body lotion every single day.

Mellody Hobson

#21. It doesn't matter if you have one billion rupees in your bank account or one rupee. This is one life you get, and you'd rather spend it enjoying whatever you have, rather than thinking, 'Oh, I should have scored seven more runs, or I should get more money.'

Virender Sehwag