Top 100 Not Finished Quotes
#1. Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
#2. The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.
Josef Von Sternberg
#3. We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.
Donald Riggio
#4. So don't come in here acting like you matter. You left and took your high horse with you," he takes another step in my direction. My throat constricts.
He's not finished, "And you show up here at my club thinking you can just waltz right in and have a say? No bitch.
Bink Cummings
#6. But you are not finished. You are my masterpiece, Helene Aquilla, but I have just begun. If you survive, you shall be a force to be reckoned with in this world. But first you will be unmade. First, you will be broken.
Sabaa Tahir
#7. The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.
Steven Gerrard
#9. For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.
Peter Orszag
#10. I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann
#11. I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.
Erro
#13. Creation was not finished at the dawn of this earth, but creation continues, and we have a lot to do to make the world a better place.
George Cadle Price
#14. The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
Ken Burns
#15. I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.
Jean Alesi
#16. Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#17. Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.
Fred Brooks
#18. She was thinking how it was the unfinished business. This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over. Everything was still going on. The business not only not finished but maybe not done well enough.
Lydia Davis
#19. Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Sri Aurobindo
#20. My Poem is life, and not finished.
It shall never be finished.
My Poem is life, and can grow.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#21. Baby, you want to talk about what happened, go for it. I'm listening. But you know, I'm no angel, and I'm not finished dancing with the devil. If anyone ever hurts you like that again, there's nothing I won't do to protect you. To make sure you're never hurt again.
Cristin Harber
#22. I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.
Oliver Sacks
#23. My second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
Alan Lightman
#24. There is hope for me yet
Because God won't forget
All the plans he's made for me
I have to wait and see
He's not finished with me yet
Brandon Heath
#25. I am pressed, but not broken. I am confused, but not despairing. I am hunted by the enemy but not abandoned by God. I have been thrown down, but I am not finished yet.
George Sousa
#26. I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.
Brennan Manning
#27. You can't leave yet. I'm not finished falling in love with you.
Colleen Hoover
#28. If the ending is not happy, the story is not finished.
J.P. Leck
#29. I catch my breath but he's not finished. I love you, Annah. And if you're willing to risk everything to be with me, then I'm willing to risk everything to be with you. I'm going to keep fighting for you, every day of my life. If you'll have me.
Carrie Ryan
#30. Fallon, I don't care about the book. I don't even want to finish it. All I care about is you. Being with you every day. Seeing you every day. I'm not finished falling in love with you yet. But if you don't want to finish falling in love with me, then you need to tell me right now.
Colleen Hoover
#31. All I care about is you. Being with you every day. Seeing you every day. I'm not finished falling in love with you yet.
Colleen Hoover
#32. Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#33. The reason for such an "unreasonable" attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.
Carl Jung
#34. I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.
Jim Gaffigan
#35. I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson
#37. A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
#38. The journey is the mystery ... the destination the answer. If you don't have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.
Shannon L. Alder
#39. Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet.
T.I.
#40. If you are still alive, then God is NOT finished with you!
Beth Moore
#41. Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.
Miguel Ruiz
#42. If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with.
Leonore Fleischer
#43. The shopping is not finished and before the pre-season starts I would like to bring in another two players. I like shopping, maybe I have become a woman.
Paolo Di Canio
#44. We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"
William J. Clinton
#45. Petrah held up a hand. "I am not finished, Iskra Yellowlegs.
Sarah J. Maas
#46. My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#47. Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.
Louis Leterrier
#48. My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.
Michael Arndt
#49. In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#50. Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.
George R R Martin
#52. But cruel fate had not finished with us yet. My colleague's gasps and grunts from the rear ceased for a moment to be replaced by a horrified shriek. The bloody thing's shitting, Jim! She's shitting everywhere!
James Herriot
#53. I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind.
Adam Carolla
#54. Accept that you are not finished, and a new and better life is just beginning.
Bryant McGill
#55. We were not finished yet, not even close. I could still smell her. I remembered what she felt like. What she tasted like. This wasn't a casual sexual thing. This was a mating. I would have Kate as my mate. Whatever it took, no matter how long, she would be with me.
Ilona Andrews
#56. What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, It is finished. We made it, and it works.
William Faulkner
#57. It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, world view and thoughts.
Annie Proulx
#58. I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it's not finished yet.
Richard Bach
#59. So I wouldn't run too far, Freckles," Bash added, his voice a blend of frustration and determination. "Because we're not finished. Not by a fucking long shot.
Julie Johnson
#60. I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.
Ariel Sharon
#61. Who would have thought at this time in our lives that we'd still have something like this. That it turns out we're not finished with changes and excitements. And not all dried up in body and spirit.
Kent Haruf
#62. I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.
George Lucas
#63. Be expectant ... God is not finished writing your story!
Joy Marino
#64. I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#65. We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.
Steven Gerrard
#66. Wait just a goddamn minute, Josie. We're not finished. No way in fuck I'm giving up that easy. You're worth fighting for.
Maya Banks
#67. You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#68. And I am not finished," I promised. "Tell me where to find the child."
"F*** you!"
"I'm not attracted to you," I said. "But if by that you mean you won't help me, then I have no use for you.
Rachel Caine
#69. We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness
sensuality in which the whole being can participate.
Anais Nin
#70. I'm still lonely and it's a glorification of something I'm not finished with. I don't want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that's why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#71. The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.
James Whistler
#72. You need not fear it, but you must always bear in mind that the past is never quite as finished with you as you think you are with it.
Kathryn Kennish
#73. Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
Len Wein
#74. Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.
Leigh Steinberg
#75. The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
C.S. Lewis
#76. You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#77. Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.
Carroll Quigley
#78. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back
that's an earthquake. And then you get a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished.
Arthur Miller
#79. I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy
#80. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
Chris Cleave
#81. For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
Piers Anthony
#82. The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it's much more fun to do that because you're not doing the same thing over and over.
Aneurin Barnard
#83. I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
Sebastian Faulks
#84. Bob [Sachs] is not the only client who wants a more finished look. People from out of state still see the 'Old West,' mining-camp look as new and exciting, but most don't want splinters [from unfinished wood] in their houses. The taste is more grown-up.
John Shirley
#85. The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.
El Lissitzky
#86. The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
Umberto Eco
#87. The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.
Venita VanCaspel
#88. But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#89. It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?"
"I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun.
Tove Jansson
#90. I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.
Ben Carson
#91. Physical death is a transitional step in the total life process. The soul, which does not die, having finished with the Earthly body, moves to a higher level of life, where it grows under greatly enhanced circumstances.
Sandra Champlain
#92. A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#93. Still. No resolution ever. None. Nothing decided, nothing finished. The Dipper wheels back into place. Just one turn. One turn of the wheel and we are different, never the same. Not ever. Not even those stars. Even they, they decay, collapse, coalesce, break apart. Close my eyes.
Peter Heller
#94. The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
Danica Patrick
#95. When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.
Ben Chandler
#96. You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'
Ridley Scott
#97. You'll drain me dry, but not my neck, and you'll beg me to stop before I'm finished. -Bones
Jeaniene Frost
#98. Finished' is not an adjective that describes a book that has been read to the point you think you cannot read it anymore. Books never run out.
Ella
#99. The family in the West is finished ... its origin was economic, not biological ... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.
Gore Vidal
#100. Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
Bertrand Russell
