Quotes About Incomplete

My life is a train of unfinished tasks, one railcar after another of half-finished efforts, with no caboose in sight.

Shame to die with one bullet left, though.

To fear only God's power with trembling and dread without fearing (or respecting) His astonishing love is an incomplete response that diminishes our experience and enjoyment of Him.

The spot was empty. Empty but not void. Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty-with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first stop of finding it, which is knowing what it is.

In fiction, especially in texts that are framed by a storytelling situation, aporia is a favourite device of narrators to arouse curiosity in their audience, or to emphasize the extraordinary nature of the story they are telling. It is often combined with another figure of rhetoric, aposiopesis, the incomplete sentence or unfinished utterance, usually indicated on the page by a trail of dots...

People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips

It happened to me on 'King of the Hill,' where I'd left it before the end and didn't really participate in the ending, and I always felt a little bit like I wanted to try a different version of that story.

even though she assured me two people could be a family, ours didn't seem complete.

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.

You may be hurting or in solitude as at now because of the love you failed to keep or never found, but have faith that someday, you will be entitled for one moment when somebody will hold your hand and say these words to you while looking sincerely to your eyes: life is incomplete without you around.

Perhaps nothing in this broken world can be pure or of a piece, unfractured.

He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

Evolution means that nature does not operate according to fixed laws but by the dynamic interplay of law, chance, and deep time; that is, one cannot understand natural processes apart from developmental categories. The interaction of forces creates a dynamic process of unfolding life, pointing to the fact that nature is incomplete; there are no fixed essences. Instead, nature is consistently oriented toward new and complex life.

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

A veces uno se cree incompleto y es solamente joven.

There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel.

A volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane.

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.

The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims.

Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

Hope is incomplete and ongoing. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and is complete.