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It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration.… — Edward Kennedy
At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a… — Benny Carter
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,… — Terry Pratchett
While I am humbled by the widespread encouragement of so many and hold in the highest esteem those who serve us in federal office, I… — Gavin Newsom
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… — Abel Korzeniowski
A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy,… — Katherine Dunn
In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's… — Robert Updegraff
Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?'… — James Whistler
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished… — Eric Hoffer
Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and… — Joshua Reynolds
However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or… — Joshua Reynolds
A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is… — Walter J. Phillips
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best… — Charles Bartlett Johnson
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle… — Golda Meir
Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural… — Lyndon B. Johnson
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson
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… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of making and keeping… — Gary Ryan
What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete! — D. H. Lawrence
As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. — Andre Gide
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… — Bill Cosby
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… — Marian Wright Edelman

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