Incomplete Quotes

293 Incomplete quotes by 245 unique authors

The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in… — Ben Macintyre
Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must… — Richard Leider
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. — Robert Breault
A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it… — Hans Arp
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it… — John Berger
My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time]… — Claude Monet
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
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. — Martin Seligman
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… — John Shelby Spong
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… — Philip Guston
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… — Francis Collins
An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power. — Richard Schmid
We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect. — Egon Friedell
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
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,… — Charles Fort
A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two… — Marianne Williamson
In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years -… — Lewis Thomas
We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete… — Jerry Bridges
What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete! — D. H. Lawrence
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. — C.S. Lewis
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. — Saul Bellow
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
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… — Jim Gibbons
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… — Edmond de Goncourt
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… — Norman Cousins

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