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Quotes About Incomplete

The association between the post-encephalitic syndrome and demyelination or incomplete myelination of the brain seems quite secure. And the fact that encephalitis -including that caused by vaccination- can cause demyelination has been known since the 1920's!
~ Harris Coulter
It is also very legitimate to criticize the scientists and philosophers who drew unnecessarily pessimistic conclusions based on an incomplete picture that neglected the positive effects of self-organization in far-from-equilibrium systems.
~ Lee Smolin
So it goes,' Prosper Lost said, a little sadly. 'There are some stories you never get to finish.
~ Lemony Snicket
There are some stories you never get to finish.
~ Lemony Snicket
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.
~ Joanne Harris
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
~ Virginia Satir
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
~ Jim Gibbons
The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
~ Andrew Wyeth
Heartbreak is not lessened by the day. Nor is sorrow diminished when washed by night. Sleep will not visit the incomplete soul.
~ Tim Irwin
If it seems like he's going to die she'll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. So
~ Daniel Wallace
Our knowledge of any past event is always incomplete, probably inaccurate, beclouded by ambivalent evidence and biased historians, and perhaps distorted by our own patriotic or religious partisanship. "Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.
~ Will Durant
What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose.
~ William James
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
~ lewis c s v
There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
She'd half loved men, and they'd half failed her.
~ Jardine Libaire
The strata of sedimentary rock are like the pages of a book, each with a record of contemporary life written on it. Unfortunately, the record is far from complete.
~ Jeanette Winterson
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
~ Paul Valery
I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen
~ Ani DiFranco
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.
~ Isaac Asimov
I have a very unsatisfactory and incomplete knowledge of Brooklyn and cannot discuss specifically either what you can do here or what possibilities the city shows in an artistic way. I am not a foreigner but coming here as I do after a long stay abroad, I think things here strike me much as they strike a foreigner.
~ Gutzon Borglum
apparently there are some holes in it. It's like an incomplete deck of cards –
~ Unknown
Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it's not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or interpretation. That's literature's USP: staying unresolved, keeping its most vital messages unspoken, creating a zone of noise where everything and nothing is said at the same time.
~ Tom McCarthy