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Quotes About Incomplete

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
~ Arthur W. Radford
I know when something is kind of half-baked.
~ Bill Budge
I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.
~ Mike Birbiglia
Here one page, possibly two, is missing.
~ Samuel R. Delany
There is always an element of suffering even in the happiness of the Russian people, and without it their happiness is incomplete - Dostoyevsky
~ Sara Wheeler
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
~ Sara Zarr
Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
I'm only interested in an art which can change the ideology of society....Art which is only committed to aesthetic values is incomplete.
~ Marina Abramovi?
I am finding it very difficult; it is almost beyond my powers of presentation; the paper will probably be intelligible to no one outside our immediate circle. How bungled our reproductions are, how wretchedly we dissect the great art works of psychic nature! Unfortunately this paper in turn is becoming too bulky. It just pours out of me, and even so it's inadequate, incomplete and therefore untrue. A wretched business.
~ Sigmund Freud
Aristotle said. "We should regard women's nature as suffering from natural defectiveness." And Saint Thomas in his turn decreed that woman was an "incomplete man," an "incidental" being.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Or call up him that left half toldThe story of Cambuscan bold.
~ John Milton
It is safe to say that the knowledge men can acquire of women, even as they have been and are—never mind what they could be—is wretchedly incomplete and superficial, and that it always will be so until women themselves have told all that they have to tell.
~ John Stuart Mill
Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.
~ John Williams
Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.
~ John Yau
Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions.
~ Emil Cioran
Scholasticism is the least incomplete, when, starting from revelation, it rests unshaken on its divine foundation, and never deserts the formulae of absolute verity.
~ baring gould sabine vii
Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.
~ Brian Kernighan
Libby stood at the bar like something that had been hastily added at the end of a painting that hasn't quite dried yet.
~ Scarlett Thomas
...even saying good-bye isn't enough. There's always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There's always going to be that one missing piece.
~ Mira Grant
Sme iba nehotové, neúplné bytosti, ak nám niekto múdrejÅ¡í, lepÅ¡í ako my nepomáha zdokonaliÃ…Â¥ naÅ¡e slabé, nedokonalé povahy.
~ Marry Shelley
I knew what it was like to be haunted by the ghost of a self one wished to be, but only half-sensed.
~ Audre Lorde
Lo que sé es esto: nadie lo consigue todo. Y nosotras las inmigrantes lo sabemos mejor que nadie. Tienes siempre un pie en cada sitio. Nunca puedes ser feliz del todo porque cuando marchas te partes en dos y dondequiera que vayas una mitad está siempre llamando a la otra. Ese es el precio, Louisa. El precio a pagar por quienes somos. Tomó un sorbo de su vaso y
~ Jojo Moyes
Wer nur die Hälfte liebt der liebt dich nicht halb sondern gar nicht
~ Erich Fried