Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.
If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.
I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.
God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation.
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.
Would I go back to Napoli? It'd be wonderful even to just know those fans had thought of me. I left unfinished business there.
I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.
Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.
I wanted to fulfil the unfinished agenda of my father, which was to solve the problems of farmers, daily wage workers, and downtrodden people, irrespective of their caste and religion.
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
I've done so much in my career but a little part of me feels I still have unfinished business here in the Premier League.
There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.
The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.
and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in.
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof
If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be exciting, not boring.
Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.
It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.
Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.
Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.
There was no sense of burden, like, 'I now must carry on Robert Kennedy's unfinished work.' Absolutely not.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.
I'm terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost.
There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.
I feel unfinished business with the WBO title because that was my first loss when I went to New Zealand with Joseph Parker.
I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.
What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
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