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Quotes About Unfinished

Câte zile f?r? rost! Pline de poveÅŸti, o groaz? de poveÅŸti întunecate. PoveÅŸti terminate, altele abia începute, înfipte-n întunecimea zilei ca o creang? moart?.
~ Carmen Laforet
It's not the past if it's not finished.
~ Caroline Kepnes
The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
~ George Lamming
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
~ George Weigel
Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers, which continue in dream and which we all complete within ourselves!
~ Georges Rodenbach
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
~ Christina Rossetti
The trouble was, he realized with dread, when your heart finally stopped beating in your chest, everything that you wished you'd said but hadn't, all the missing pieces of yourself that you had yet to give, all the failures you had stuffed under the rug in the guise of life being so very busy . . . that stopped, too. The mid-stride step, never to be completed, was the worst regret anyone could have.
~ J.R. Ward
a ghost is someone who hasn't made it.
~ Sylvia Browne
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
it was the us they created whenever they were together - that had made all of this both natural and inevitable. She couldn't help thinking that the story between them was somehow unfinished; that both of them were waiting to write the ending.
~ Nicholas Sparks
At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books.
~ Umberto Eco
However, in cases of massive trauma at the hands of an enemy, the transgenerational transmission of unfinished psychological processes are generalized and are inevitably involved in strengthening the shared large-group identity and even in modifying it. This is a vast and very important topic that I will examine later in this volume.
~ Vam?k D. Volkan
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?
~ Vasily Grossman
Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist.
~ Terri Guillemets
They, who write ill, and they, who ne'er durst write, Turn critics, out of mere revenge and spite: A playhouse gives them fame; and up there starts, From a mean fifth-rate wit, a man of parts... Our author fears those critics as his fate; And those he fears, by consequence must hate... Howe'er, the poet's safe enough to day, They cannot censure an unfinished play...
~ John Dryden
A headstone is just a bookmark in our unfinished lives.
~ Terri Guillemets
President Kennedy's life and death represent both what is possible in America, and all of the work left undone.
~ Jack Schlossberg
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
~ Andre Gide
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.
~ Lee Hall
Would I go back to Napoli? It'd be wonderful even to just know those fans had thought of me. I left unfinished business there.
~ Fabio Quagliarella
'Blackbird' is the only one I've ever wanted to redo. It just haunted me, this play. There was a sense of unfinished business because at the time we did it at Manhattan Theatre Club, there was real momentum to move it to Broadway.
~ Joe Mantello
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
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
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
~ Mary McCarthy