Unfinished Quotes - Page 9

• I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Regret, Unfinished Business, Years

  "The Value of Guardrails". Interview with Paula Hendricks, www.reviveourhearts.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Memories, Past

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• 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.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Laughing, Heaven, Together

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Men, Perfect

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• A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

  Henry Cloud

  Grief, Loss, Unfinished Business

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2006). “God Will Make a Way: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Believe, Ambition, Winning

  "Cesc Fabregas transfer: Arsenal fans react to former midfielder's move to Stamford Bridge" by Paul Gorst, www.mirror.co.uk. June 12, 2014.

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• I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

  Carl Jung

  Karma, Children, Fate

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• Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped by great beams of wood. In short, the yet unfinished and unopened Railroad was in progress.

  Charles Dickens

  Science, House, Progress

  "Dombey and Son".

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• and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

  Sara Zarr

  Teacher, Smart, Heart

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• Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Libertarian, World, Change Your Thoughts

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Unfinished Business, Ghost, Knows

  "The Satanic Verses". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 1988.

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• A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Responsibility, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Mind, Faces

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, section 89, 1973.

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• . . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

  Sara Zarr

  Life, Heart, Unfinished Business

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• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Love You, Men, Unfinished Business

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.132, Penguin Group

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• He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in my throat as he reached out and brushed a strand of hair where it had flown across my cheek. 'I believe we do have unfinished business.' 'Good.' I gulped, suddenly one big mass of tingling body parts that wanted an immediate introduction to all of his body parts. I tried to slam down a mental barrier between his mind and mine, but it did no good. The cheerleaders in my groin were setting up fundraising car washes to finance a field trip to his groin.

  Katie MacAlister

  Believe, Eye, Fundraising

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• As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

  Walt Disney

  Break Even, Bankers, Negative

  "The Walt Disney Story". Documentary, April 8, 1973.

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• It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Adventure, Artist, America

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that

  George Carlin

  Garbage Cans, Guy, Body

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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

  William J. Clinton

  Horse, Race, Election

  "Bill Clinton; Sens. Webb & Kyl; Gov. Paterson". "Meet the Press", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2009.

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• 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.

  Trina Robbins

  Artist, Superhero, Causes

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Degrees, Half

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.262

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• I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Book, Found, Written

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• [the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality

  Anton Webern

  Eye, Reality, Years

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• The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Father, Reality, America

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1888). “Old portraits and modern sketches”

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