Top 100 Quotes About Unfinished
#2. Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!
Margarita Gakis
#3. The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#4. One way to remain
unfinished is to stop.
the other is to go on.
Laura Moriarty
#5. The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable because phenomenology's task was to reveal the mystery of the world and the mystery of reason.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#6. I have pain in my hip and long walks are a thing of the past but I'm neither morbid nor senile. I'm not obsessed by death, but I'm at an age when I have to accept that my time is about up. You want to close the accounts and take care of unfinished business.
Stieg Larsson
#7. This place was as confusing as King. Hard edges, unfinished and unrefined, yet mysterious and beautiful in it's own way.
T.M. Frazier
#8. Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.
Hugh Laurie
#9. Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.
William J. Clinton
#10. As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
Aphra Behn
#11. Man's life as commentary to abstruse [940] Unfinished poem. Note for further use. Dressing
Vladimir Nabokov
#12. Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
Guy Debord
#13. Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.
Stephen H. Segal
#14. I like the spreads - designing them is a welcome challenge - but for a dyed-in-the-wool page-a-day journeyman like me, it can be tough to leave a drawing unfinished at the end of the workday.
Stuart Immonen
#15. And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
Rainer Maria Rilke
#16. Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
Anton Chekhov
#17. Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.
Mark Kingwell
#18. Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.
Maurice Druon
#19. I don't like the guilt associated with an unfinished book.
Kim Holden
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Mark C. Perry
#21. I think you kept three credits, consciously or subconsciously, so that you could hang on to something, hang on and not move forward. I think you want to feel that you're still unfinished.
She wanted to tell her grandmother that she was still unfinished. Unfinished, unanswered, unformed.
Paullina Simons
#22. People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we're left unfinished. Sometimes that's for the best. Some pieces can't be forced into a puzzle, or at least they shouldn't be, because they won't make sense.
Adam Silvera
#23. Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines.
Michael Ignatieff
#24. What was it that Rilke wrote? That music raised him out of himself, and never returned him to where it had found him, but to a deeper place, somewhere in the unfinished.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#25. The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.
John F. Kennedy
#26. If her face were a puzzle, most would put it back in the box, unfinished. Moreover,
Jay Kristoff
#27. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived. I
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#28. In the wind that may travel
as far as you have gone, I send this message: Out here,
in a place you will not forget, a simple man
has been moved to curse the rising sun and to question
God's unfinished work.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#29. What's your unfinished business ?"
"I wanted to matter
Kim Fielding
#30. In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide
#31. When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.
Russell M. Nelson
#32. Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.
Jack Newfield
#33. Soon the floor in front of us is littered with the corpses of unfinished songs.
Dave Barry
#34. At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, completes what nature left unfinished.
Sophia Loren
#36. Only fools think that men and women love differently. Fools and pedagogues. I tell you, the love of men for women is just as heartbreaking, just as muddled, just as bewildering, and in the end, just as unfinished.
Edna O'Brien
#37. 'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
Damon Galgut
#38. I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly sketched out, so that when I start again I can pick up where I left off the day before.
Julia Bell
#39. Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.
Holly Lisle
#40. There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Carson McCullers
#41. However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.
Joshua Reynolds
#42. Hannah's house has been unfinished ever since I can remember. Deep down I think that's always been a comfort to me, because people don't leave unfinished houses.
Melina Marchetta
#43. Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
Pliny The Younger
#44. I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.
Marcel Duchamp
#45. The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security
Tatyana Golikova
#46. I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.
Jenna Lyons
#47. I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.
Mary Oliver
#48. Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Salman Rushdie
#49. The mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.
Sara Zarr
#50. Leaving him was less like leaving even the most simple of her friends in Flaw Valleys, and more like losing unfinished a manuscript, beautiful, absorbing and difficult, which she had long wanted to read.
Dorothy Dunnett
#51. Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.
Ed Bliss
#52. The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
William Sloane Coffin
#53. American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
John F. Kennedy
#54. I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#55. An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
Mary McCarthy
#56. My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.
Josh Groban
#57. There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
Milton H. Erickson
#59. I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.
John Mayer
#60. I'm more interested in a photography that is 'unfinished' - a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue. There are pictures that are closed, finished, to which there is no way in.
Paolo Pellegrin
#61. I write ... sonnets ... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
Italo Calvino
#62. There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it ... so I don't write a million songs.
Christine McVie
#63. The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.
Mike Yaconelli
#64. That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
William Butler Yeats
#65. Cinders patter, falling with the snow. We creep infinitesimally northward through the dirty chaos of a world in the process of making itself.
Praise then Creation unfinished!
Ursula K. Le Guin
#66. There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#67. No artist has painted
A true portrait of Lenin
Ages to come will complete
Lenin's unfinished portrait.
Did Poletaev understand the tragic implication of his lines about Lenin? (pg179)
Vasily Grossman
#68. If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. Line
Vladimir Nabokov
#69. But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
Virginia Woolf
#70. The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.
Glenn Gould
#71. The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or mutilated manuscript, unburdened with contrived or banal endings.
Anthony Powell
#72. Do not abandon what You have begun in me, but go on to perfect all that remains unfinished.
Augustine Of Hippo
#74. It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.
Davis Bunn
#75. The editing of a good piece of writing is like the editing of one's life: never quite complete; rendering all, ultimately, unfinished works when we perish from this earth.
K.C. Woodworth
#76. Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided ... we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.
Charles Bartlett Johnson
#77. In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.
Daniel Libeskind
#79. In addition to unfinished business, some ghosts haunt so that they will be remembered.
Donna Lynn Hope
#80. It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
Fulton J. Sheen
#81. What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
Eric Hoffer
#82. There's always a piece of unfinished work left,' said Mrs. Lynde, with tears in her eyes. 'But I supposed there's always some one to finish it.
L.M. Montgomery
#83. The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
Paulo Freire
#84. As long as one American is hungry ... then we have unfinished business in this country.
William Safire
#85. Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.
Russell M. Nelson
#86. As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.
Chelsea Manning
#87. He dropped to his knees, pushed up her skirt, and spread her legs open. "I have unfinished business with your pussy," he growled, as he dragged a finger across the outside of her panties.
Lauren Blakely
#89. I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.
Chip Kelly
#91. Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
Terry Pratchett
#92. There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel.
Italo Calvino
#93. She became a question mark. An unfinished puzzle. An intricate crossword. An impervious shooting star yet to determine her course.
Neetha Joseph
#94. If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.
Raymond Pettibon
#95. Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
George Weigel
#97. It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
Kevin Spacey
#98. It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
Charles Kuralt
#99. I am a poem in progress
with no clear beginning or ending
just a middle
untended, unintended,
unfinished, hanging there
like the breath before a question
Jen Lynn Anderson
#100. The self is ... a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on.
Rebecca Solnit
