Unfinished Business quotes

Unfinished Business

39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

39 quotes
Edward Kennedy
Edward Kennedy Politician

"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. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam."

Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Gilbert Actress

"My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in this life, your soul sits at a large, circular conference table and chooses the souls who are going to be a part of your life. As for which particular people would be chosen, I figured they would be individuals from previous lives with whom there was still unfinished business."

Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

"If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is."

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