Unfinishedness Quotes

#1. Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

Mike Yaconelli

#2. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished ... Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

Eric Hoffer

#3. Unfinishedness avoids the stupidity of conclusions

Pierre Senges

#4. Seen at Liberty University: I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.

Kevin Roose

#5. Do the dead frighten you?

George R R Martin

#6. I came to the United States in 1981 as a student.When I left, I was totally the most beloved little flower in China and so it was an outrage basically.

Amanda Schull

#7. Words of love you whisper soft and true
Darling I love you

Buddy Holly

#8. Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

Nicole Scherzinger

#9. If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#10. When Stephen comes into a room, the furnishings shrink from him. Chairs scuttle backwards. Joint-stools flatten themselves like pissing bitches. The woollen Bible figures in the king's tapestries lift their hands to cover their ears.

Hilary Mantel

#11. Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

Patricia Leavy

#12. When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.

Dan Byrd

#13. With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

Ma Ying-jeou

#14. Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#15. I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

J. M. W. Turner

#16. Depression never arrives alone in Life. It brings its friends with it despair, self-injury, and suicidal Thoughts.

Unknown

#17. I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. to be efficient it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what had happened in the past.

George Orwell