Quotes about Incomplete

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. Votes: 4

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

No one like the Incomplete Stories, so does the God :-) Votes: 3

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! Votes: 3

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation. Votes: 3

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed. Votes: 2

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. Votes: 2

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. Votes: 2

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Votes: 2

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. Votes: 2

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage Votes: 2

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. Votes: 2

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. Votes: 2

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. Votes: 2

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." Votes: 2

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Fear is incomplete knowledge Votes: 0

Poems come from incomplete knowledge. Votes: 0

It's terrifying to show incomplete footage. Votes: 0

Freedom is incomplete without social justice. Votes: 0

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. Votes: 0

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power. Votes: 0

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete Votes: 0

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain. Votes: 0

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. Votes: 0

No one likes incomplete story, so does the God :-) Votes: 0

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete. Votes: 0

...and it works because happiness itself is often subtle and incomplete. Votes: 0

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. Votes: 0

Poetry keeps my heart neat, even when incomplete, I find peace. Votes: 0

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete. Votes: 0

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless. Votes: 0

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there. Votes: 0

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion. Votes: 0

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete. Votes: 0

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete. Votes: 0

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces. Votes: 0

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] Votes: 0

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete. Votes: 0

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. Votes: 0

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information. Votes: 0

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit. Votes: 0

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words. Votes: 0

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete. Votes: 0

No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork. Votes: 0

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. Votes: 0

Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete; because they are not heroes yet. Votes: 0

Two incomplete people can't complete one another. Complete yourself and then let someone else complement you. Votes: 0

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Votes: 0

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information. Votes: 0

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her. Votes: 0

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces Votes: 0

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete. Votes: 0

The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat. Votes: 0

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. Votes: 0

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. Votes: 0

You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus Votes: 0

What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete! Votes: 0

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete. Votes: 0

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. Votes: 0

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. Votes: 0

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. Votes: 0

God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity. Votes: 0

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. Votes: 0

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. Votes: 0

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.--Egwene al'Vere Votes: 0

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one. Votes: 0

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete. Votes: 0

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold. Votes: 0

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. Votes: 0

It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal. Votes: 0

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. Votes: 0

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect. Votes: 0

There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both. Votes: 0

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth. Votes: 0

Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass. Votes: 0

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices. Votes: 0

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning. Votes: 0

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it. Votes: 0

Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside. Votes: 0

When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset. Votes: 0

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants. Votes: 0

The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes... Votes: 0

The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it. Votes: 0

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet Votes: 0

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past. Votes: 0

The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims. Votes: 0

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions. Votes: 0

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. Votes: 0

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer. Votes: 0

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading. Votes: 0

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. Votes: 0

Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it. Votes: 0

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole. Votes: 0

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings. Votes: 0

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth Votes: 0

But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped. Votes: 0

I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete Votes: 0

I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet. Votes: 0

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this. Votes: 0

My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention. Votes: 0

I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero? Votes: 0

Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you know the Divine laws. Votes: 0

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful. Votes: 0

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself! Votes: 0

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. Votes: 0

Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt. Votes: 0

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops. Votes: 0

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. Votes: 0

The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete. Votes: 0

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight. Votes: 0

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions. Votes: 0

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence. Votes: 0

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages. Votes: 0

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular. Votes: 0

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. Votes: 0

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete. Votes: 0

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope. Votes: 0

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away. Votes: 0

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds. Votes: 0

Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always hides in order to experience full humanity. Votes: 0

I knew this girl named Tropicana, She's always juicin'. Producing cash for a sexual task. She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat... You ain't paid? Then your grade is incomplete. Votes: 0

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan Votes: 0

Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves. Votes: 0

... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life. Votes: 0

To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided. Votes: 0

The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love. Votes: 0

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described. Votes: 0

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right? Votes: 0

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things... Votes: 0

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy. Votes: 0

I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it was a love that was incomplete until it was shared with others. Votes: 0

Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again. Votes: 0

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events. Votes: 0

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else... Votes: 0