Unfinished Business Quotes

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

President Kennedy's life and death represent both what is possible in America, and all of the work left undone.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

…it has fallen to you to do a dirty job which your predecessors ought to have done before you.

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

When he died, he took a big piece of me with him. I'm sure that every time I do something, I'll think about having done it with Hef.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled.

My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot of bitterness, but having written about it, I found that I was able to overcome that bitterness and look at the relationship anew.

I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.

I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.

In 2006, I started making a film called 'Restraint of Beasts.' While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.