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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. -- Christina Rossetti
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. -- Hillary Clinton
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. -- Andre Gide
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. -- Carson McCullers
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. -- Anita Brookner
The unfinished is nothing. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy. -- Brian Tracy
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof -- Mary McCarthy
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.' -- Yoko Ono
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. -- George MacDonald
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. -- Mark Kingwell
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan. -- Chelsea Manning
Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress. -- Robert Kavanaugh
In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. -- Fulton Oursler
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
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
. . .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
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -- James Patterson
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces. -- Mary Antin
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what. -- Salman Rushdie
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. -- Pliny the Younger
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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
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. -- Jack Newfield
Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity. -- Robert McKee
Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring. -- Russell M. Nelson
You can't die with an unfinished book. -- Terry Pratchett
What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. -- Zaha Hadid
Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help. -- Hugh Laurie
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel. -- Vijay Mallya
Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world. -- Frank Lampard
When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished. -- Taylor Swift
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. -- Marian Wright Edelman
I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people. -- Mohammed Omar
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems. -- Italo Calvino
As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book. -- Terry Pratchett
I believe we move in soul groups; we meet the same people over different lifetimes; we have to finish the unfinished business with those people. And when we do, they walk away from our lives. -- Shilpa Shetty
I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing. -- Bill Cosby
In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. -- Fulton Oursler
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else. -- Lee Hall
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved. -- Abbas Kiarostami
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. -- Yoko Ono
I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life. -- Mike Yaconelli
Never show unfinished work. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Liberty is always unfinished business -- Havelock Ellis
We are an unfinished nation. -- John McCain
I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts. -- Harold Robbins
Life should be an unfinished business. -- Colin Fletcher
I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts. -- John Mayer
Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task. -- Jim Rohn
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. -- Guy Debord
Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution. -- Gloria Feldt
In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world. -- Joan D. Chittister
Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark. -- Fakeer Ishavardas
I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon. -- Chip Kelly
When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business. -- Russell M. Nelson
The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count. -- Wally Amos
It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished. -- Kevin Spacey
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Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects. -- Ed Bliss
... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless. -- David Malouf
A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on. -- Laura Moriarty
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. -- Louis Kronenberger
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. -- Eric Hoffer
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country. -- William Safire
Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls. -- William J. Clinton
We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there. -- Kellyanne Conway
In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. -- Daniel Wallace
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly. -- George Weigel
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. -- Sherman Alexie
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished. -- John F. Kennedy
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet. -- Charles Kuralt
Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished. -- Brandon Sanderson
There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed. -- Glenn Gould
What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete! -- D. H. Lawrence
I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever. -- Yasmin Le Bon
The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security -- Tatyana Golikova
In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings. -- T. S. Eliot
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity. -- Paulo Freire
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. -- Michel de Montaigne
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. -- Mary McCarthy
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees. -- Mike Yaconelli
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. -- Mary McCarthy
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt. -- Alix Kates Shulman
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. -- Henry Cloud
I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important. -- Jenna Lyons
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. -- William Butler Yeats
and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. -- Jeanette Winterson
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me. -- Anton Chekhov
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. -- Ruth Ozeki
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation. -- Abraham Verghese
There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene. -- Michael Ondaatje
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished. -- Sophia Loren
I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life. -- Marilyn Sewell
I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered. -- Alan W. Livingston
Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained. -- Ameen Rihani
God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation. -- Thomas S. Monson
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.' -- Sophia Loren
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
Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting. -- Terry Pratchett
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. -- Madeleine Albright
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
the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished. -- Sara Zarr
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
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. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant. -- Abel Korzeniowski
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history. -- Xavier Becerra
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history. -- Xavier Becerra

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