Top 304 Unfinished Quotes & Sayings

Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind's unfinished challenges.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

The unfinished is nothing.

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

Never leave a crossword unfinished.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.

I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, however imperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence. We live in order to finish an, as yet, unfinished universe, unfinished so far as the human, that is, the highest part of it, is concerned. We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent.

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.

In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

Liberty is always unfinished business

Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

It felt after the Bonds, after my four outings as James Bond, there seemed to be unfinished business. And the way that the Bond finished in my life and the demise of Bond going off stage left into the night, it seemed like there was a certain void there, as they say, of unfinished business.

Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

Life should be an unfinished business.

Never show unfinished work.

Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.

Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.

I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished.

We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there.

My final fight was called 'Unfinished Business' - and I finished it.

Door’s locked,” he said. “And we have unfinished business.

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

I am very spiritual and believe that there are souls with unfinished dreams.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBT rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

But while Nelson Mandela's work is sadly done, his dream is unfinished.

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

We are an unfinished nation.

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.