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  • A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete. -- Nikki Reed
  • My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. -- Tom Stoppard
  • Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. -- Plato
  • Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. -- Georges Bataille
  • An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. -- Russell Baker
  • It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. -- Norman Cousins
  • Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. -- Edmond de Goncourt
  • No one like the Incomplete Stories, so does the God :-) -- Raj Vanjara
  • Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! -- Robert Browning
  • Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation. -- Dorothy Richardson
  • Delight is incomplete until it is expressed. -- C. S. Lewis
  • A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. -- Jack Kornfield
  • Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. -- Plato
  • We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage -- Valerie Solanas
  • We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. -- Nelson Mandela
  • The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. -- E. M. Forster
  • What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. -- Virginia Satir
  • I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps." -- Joshua R. Sands
  • The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact. -- John Tyndall
  • For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. -- Lafcadio Hearn
  • Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else. -- Sean Covey
  • I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical. -- David Einhorn
  • If companies are able to raise equity from the market, then their problems for financing incomplete projects will come to end. Investment cycle in the capital market can kick-start with the money of savers and investors. -- Uday Kotak
  • I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete. -- Taiye Selasi
  • I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
  • The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is a walking abortion; aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples. -- Valerie Solanas
  • The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? -- Tony Kushner
  • To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly. Looking at behavior alone can miss a vital piece of the puzzle and provide an incomplete, or even a misleading, picture of the child's problems. -- Aditi Shankardass
  • 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
  • Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases. -- Werner Heisenberg
  • Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is never a solitary activity, nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension. -- Vincent Nichols
  • Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. -- Lloyd Mangrum
  • No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself. -- Haruki Murakami
  • I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress. -- Lauren Bacall
  • Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it. -- Guy Finley
  • Fear is incomplete knowledge -- Agatha Christie
  • Poems come from incomplete knowledge. -- Diane Wakoski
  • It's terrifying to show incomplete footage. -- Dylan Clark
  • Freedom is incomplete without social justice. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. -- Martin Seligman
  • An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power. -- Richard Schmid
  • Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete -- Isaac Asimov
  • Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain. -- Aristotle
  • Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. -- Italo Calvino
  • No one likes incomplete story, so does the God :-) -- Raj Vanjara
  • ...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete. -- Francis Chan
  • ...and it works because happiness itself is often subtle and incomplete. -- Roxanne Gay
  • Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. -- Assata Shakur
  • Poetry keeps my heart neat, even when incomplete, I find peace. -- Delano Johnson
  • Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete. -- Kool Moe Dee
  • Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless. -- Anatoly Karpov
  • I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there. -- Bill Hader
  • My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion. -- M.I.A.
  • True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete. -- Okakura Kakuzo
  • True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete. -- Okakura Kakuzo
  • Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces. -- Anthony Shadid
  • Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] -- Horace
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  • Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. -- Robert Breault
  • While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. -- Christopher Smart
  • One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words. -- William H. Macy
  • A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete. -- John Steinbeck
  • No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork. -- Bill Gates
  • Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. -- Northrop Frye
  • Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete; because they are not heroes yet. -- Amit Kalantri
  • Two incomplete people can't complete one another. Complete yourself and then let someone else complement you. -- Tony Gaskins
  • To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. -- Claude Simon
  • When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information. -- Ted Rall
  • How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her. -- Christopher Fry
  • If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces -- Oprah Winfrey
  • Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete. -- Guy Finley
  • The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat. -- Too $hort
  • We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. -- Saul Bellow
  • All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete! -- D. H. Lawrence
  • if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. -- Clifford Geertz
  • A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. -- Victor Hugo
  • But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity. -- Robert H. Schuller
  • The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. -- C. S. Lewis
  • So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.--Egwene al'Vere -- Brandon Sanderson
  • Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
  • One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete. -- Philip Kitcher
  • The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold. -- John Stuart Mill
  • I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. -- Conrad Veidt
  • It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal. -- Ralph W. Moss
  • The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. -- Allan Sekula
  • We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect. -- Egon Friedell
  • There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both. -- Russell M. Nelson
  • I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth. -- Dane Cook
  • Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass. -- Mike Tirico
  • They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices. -- Toshihiko Fukui
  • There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning. -- Milton H. Erickson
  • The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it. -- Fabiola Gianotti
  • Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside. -- David Hawkins
  • When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset. -- Tony Robbins
  • Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants. -- Thomas Nagel
  • The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes... -- Valerie Solanas
  • The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it. -- Fabiola Gianotti
  • Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet -- Neil Peart
  • 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
  • The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims. -- Nicholas Kristof
  • Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. -- Matthew Arnold
  • To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke. -- Paul Klee
  • My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete. -- Grace Slick
  • The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests. -- Ida Tarbell
  • Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer. -- Russell Chatham
  • 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. -- Maurice Nicoll
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