#incomplete

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#autobiography #biography #even #incompleteness #will

Omitting the section of the Pledge that affirms these beliefs strips the message of its meaning. More than any political connotation, this is why the Pledge of Allegiance is more than incomplete without the words 'under God' and 'indivisible.' It is also empty. ↗

— Dan Coats

#allegiance #also #any #beliefs #connotation

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. ↗

— Richard Owen

#before #darwin #elude #facts #history

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

#brightest #counterparts #fact #flashes #incomplete

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#incomplete #life #past #self #life

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. ↗

— James Mcneill Whistler

#great #incomplete #labour #often #picture

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

#education #english #english literature #general #general knowledge

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#genius #incompleteness #prefers #saying #should

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#adequate #carries #consistent #does #flaw

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

— Virginia Satir

#her #his #incomplete #individual #irrational