Quotes on Unfinished

Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

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.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

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.

Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.

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.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.