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Quotes About Incomplete

Interpretation gives knowledge value, but it must evolve as new knowledge emerges. From a myriad incomplete truth, a greater whole.
~ Rachel Hartman
Good made human beings poor and needy; He even inscribed humility in the human flesh when he created male and female, that is, incomplete creatures. He made them, from the very beginning, two beings, moving in search of one another, each one "unsatisfied" with only himself or herself. God has positioned human beings on a plane that inclines upward, not downward, so that union between man and woman should move them beyond the other sex upward to the supreme Other, God Himself.
~ Raniero Cantalamessa
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.
~ Rascal Flatts
Isn't it always unfair - death always a kind of outrage? A life ended too soon with jagged and torn edges, a sentence incomplete.
~ Rebecca Stott
You must not be angry with me. You must think of me as an incomplete person.
~ Julian Barnes
I knew this girl named Tropicana, She's always juicin'. Producing cash for a sexual task. She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat... You ain't paid? Then your grade is incomplete.
~ Lord Jamar
Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.
~ H. L. Mencken
The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
~ John Stuart Mill
Insofar as explanation fails to account for some salient fact, it is incomplete and its parsimony can no longer rightly be regarded as an asset. Indeed, the key failing of materialism, as we shall see, is that its parsimony is purchased at the cost of misrepresenting reality.
~ William A. Dembski
An education is incomplete which does not place a noble purpose behind mental training and make the hands willing to work.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Time has a savage way of gnawing away at life, leaving it transitory and incomplete, so that life in its fullness can never be enjoyed by any temporal being.
~ William Lane Craig
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.
~ Mario Cuomo
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
~ Anatoly Karpov
When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
~ Freeman Dyson
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
~ E. V. Lucas
An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.
~ Dan Makaon
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
~ Sarah Dessen
Evangelism is not mere initiation into a relationship with God but the formation of a community within a narrative that is not yet complete.
~ James W. Thompson
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
~ Alexander Pope
It was over before it had even begun
~ Alexandra Potter
Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously the risk-management system of any one bank appears, after the fact, to be incomplete. We ended up where banks couldn't liquidate their risk, and the system tended to freeze up.
~ Myron Scholes
Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in the form of a completely satisfying presence. This, then, is the inextinguishable, uncreated reality.
~ Rene Char
In this spirit, Marxists recognize that all social analyses, no matter which theoretical framework is used to produce them, are partial and never complete or finished, No one can understand or write the whole story about how a society is structured and how it is changing.
~ Richard D. Wolff