Quotes About Incomplete

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Being a murderer with a sensational but incomplete and unorthodox memory, I cannot tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the exact day which I first knew with certainty that the red convertible was following us.

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was the reality of his life.

Although incomplete, the description of Lisboa's clandestine voyage was consistent with the strait that Magellan eventually explored.

He never completed the sentence, but in his imagined future, he floated away, untethered.

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.

The past was a jigsaw puzzle and you never had all the pieces.

The fear of being alone is born out of keeping company with parts of yourself that want you to feel incomplete so that they can lead you into one self-compromising relationship after another!

El populismo es una continua tentación de la política latinoamericana, porque suele surgir de un hecho histórico también frecuente en nuestras sociedades: el de las modernizaciones inconclusas.

is one plank short of a bridge" (le falta un palo para el puente

What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat? Incomplete.

Sardines on the shelves. Almost taste them by looking. Sandwich? Ham and his descendants mustered and bred there. Potted meats. What is home without Plumtree's potted meat? Incomplete. What a stupid ad! Under the obituary notices they stuck it.

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events.

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.

Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete and unrepresentative evidence. An essential corrollary of this appreciation should be an awareness of how often our everyday experience presents us with biased samples of information.

I wish I could have. I wanted to be enough to fill the universe inside of Jacob Grace. But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.

I am very scatty, I don't follow things through, I forget things. I am not perfect.

We order our lives with barely held stories. As if we have been lost in a confusing landscape, gathering what was invisible and unspoken, sewing it all together in order to survive, incomplete, ignored like the sea pea on those mined beaches during the war.

That's the problem with models—they only include the details people think are relevant

what a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!

Thus it was that Einstein ended up deciding that quantum mechanics, though it may not be wrong, was at least incomplete. There must be a fuller explanation of how the universe operates, one that would incorporate both relativity theory and quantum mechanics. In doing so, it would not leave things to chance.

Attempting to do something, even if it doesn't succeed, is inspiring because we don't tend to regret what we do, we regret what we didn't do. Even following a futile attempt, we're inspired because we know that we gave it a shot. It's wondering whether we should or shouldn't try something that leaves us feeling stressed and incomplete.

A story that fate left incomplete