if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.
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?
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
It's terrifying to show incomplete footage.
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
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.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete
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.
Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
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?
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.
Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful cannot lead to all truths.
An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.