Xavier Becerra

I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

American Politician

Anita Brookner

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

English Historian

John Collins

I feel like every NBA player puts their life into this game, and for it to be cut short - it hurts, especially when you have so much unfinished business that you feel like you needed to handle.

American Basketball Player

Shilpa Shetty

I believe we move in soul groups; we meet the same people over different lifetimes; we have to finish the unfinished business with those people. And when we do, they walk away from our lives.

Indian Actress

Marian Wright Edelman

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

American Activist

Jon Gruden

I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.

American Coach

Frank Lampard

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

English Athlete

Taylor Swift

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

American Singer

Hugh Laurie

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.

British Actor

Terry Pratchett

English Author

Indicates something is in progress and not yet complete, often a task or activity.

Progress Implication

Suggests an expectation that the subject will, or should be completed in the future.

Expectation of Completion

May convey a feeling of incompleteness or a need for closure.

Lack of Closure

Refers to the quality or style of something that lacks final beautifying touches.

Aesthetic Quality

Can describe objects that are left in or close to their natural, untreated state.

Natural State

Often carries emotional weight when relating to personal or professional affairs.

Emotional Weight

Implies that some future action is needed to resolve or complete the matter.

Expectation of Action

 that responds to the challenge of the mountain, and I wonder if that's the case whether there's something in the challenge itself, in the endeavor, and particularly in the big, unfinished, chunky challenges that face humanity that call out to us, and in my experience that's certainly the case. There is one unfinished challenge

Why bother leaving the...

 I also haven't done my journalistic due diligence on this. I haven't issued my mountains of document requests, and interviewed everyone and their mother, and I haven't found my auntie yet. I don't know her story of what happened, and of her life now. The story as I've told it to you is messy and unfinished.

Noy Thrupkaew: Human...

 After all, they lasted forever and it really hurt to get them. For the Maori, those tattoos were an accepted mainstream tradition. If you shied away from the excruciating chiseling in of your moko design, your unfinished tattoo marked your cowardice. Today, unless you go the traditional route,

The history of tattoos -...

 Perhaps our parents suffered from depression. Perhaps they weren't able to love us beyond how we performed in the world. Perhaps we still suffer from a psychic pain, a wound. Perhaps we feel that many of our relationships have not had closure. And so we can feel unfinished.

Jane Fonda: Life's third...

 and came to an agreement with the builder. He would only have one winter to complete the wall. If any part was unfinished by the first day of summer, he would receive no payment. And he could have no help from any other people. The gods sealed the deal with solemn oaths

The myth of Loki and the...

 Think of life as being this book, an unfinished book for sure. We're just seeing the last few pages of each chapter. If you look out on the eight million species that we share this planet with, think of them all being four billion years of evolution.

Four billion years of...

 in his most mysterious, perhaps, poem. It's mysterious because it's probably unfinished, he probably left it unfinished, and because it might be meant for a character in a play, but it might just be Keats' thinking

Stephen Burt: Why people...

 And they are very difficult to resist, because thinking of all our unfinished tasks feels urgent. Anxiously worrying about the future feels compelling. Ruminating always feels like we're doing something important,

How to turn off work...

 room that may have been a work room for Maya scribes paintings and unfinished sketches covered some of the walls but on one there were numbers calculations and tables the most important one is

Newfound Writings Debunk...

 What keeps you up at night? Pondering deep questions? Excitement about a big trip? Or is it stress about unfinished work, an upcoming test,

Unfinished