Perfect Quotes by Ace Hood, Joe Gebbia, Haruki Murakami, Frances Harper, Jack Kirby, Jeffrey R. Holland and many others.
In order to perfect your craft, you’ve gotta go hard, you’ve gotta go overtime.
Airbnb is about the nexus of the online and offline to create the perfect customer experience.
Don’t pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.
My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.
The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.
I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.
The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful… And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.
We forget about the space between the stars, the pure and perfect space that’s also the eye of God. To penetrate the mystery is to become the mystery; to penetrate infinity is to become infinity; to penetrate light is to become light.
Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it’s perfect!
When love comes, it comes without effort like the perfect weather.
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and… in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’ is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society…. To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.
Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.
Perfectionism doesn’t make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.
I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.
The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.
Remember this, classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can’t you must take them as they are.
God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
If I enter into your dream and say, “wake up!” If you awaken, then the dream will vanish. We’ll be right where we always were and always will be, everywhere and nowhere – eternally perfect, infinite awareness.
The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it’s out there.
Sometimes I wanted to take a memory – one perfect memory – curl up in it, and go to sleep.
More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.
Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when ‘We the People’ becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.
Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don’t. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.
Rugged strength and radiant beauty–
These were one in Nature’s plan;
Humble toil and heavenward duty–
These will form the perfect man.
These were one in Nature’s plan;
Humble toil and heavenward duty–
These will form the perfect man.
It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.
In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven, because you already have a perfect thing!
At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
Don’t try to be perfect. Do the best you can. Enlist help!
Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy… So sue me!
A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
Actually, I can’t imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
I’m not the perfect person, but I have the perfect heart, I feel, when it comes to helping people.
A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I’m always travelling, so it’s perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
I do believe that God’s word is infallible, unchanging, perfect.
The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It’s perfect.
Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.
The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.
There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.
In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.
Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.
It’s ugly to compare but the greatest was Pele. If we believe that God made ​​man, the “black” PelГ© he made him perfect. He gave him everything. He lacked nothing, header, physical power, dribbling, finishing, inspiration, genius, temper, vision, goal. Everything.
I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is “Cat Ballou.” Lee Marvin in “Cat Ballou.”
But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I’m not perfect.
Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ability to smile convincingly with them. –Cressida
I came here with the perfect chemist’s perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.
I really can’t complain about anything. I’m living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There’s really nothing that I’m disappointed with.
My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I’ve got too much to do now. I’m only 27.
So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don’t spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God’s perfect plan for your life.
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
When I was modeling, I had always been told вЂIf you could lose a couple of inches, you’ll work so much more,’ or вЂYou’ll do so much better if you were just a little bit skinnier.’ I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don’t have the perfect body. No one does!
A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
There are two things you don’t do: One, you don’t open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don’t jinx a man going for a perfect week.
Any age is the perfect age to follow your dream!
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.
These are the Rad instruments that are dying out in India. So, it’s going well and I think now we are increasing the number of kids we have taught and of course we are helping out with other things too. It’s based in India now. [The idea is to] perfect it in one place and then we’ll expand.
To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind’s concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.
Very early in our children’s lives we will be forced to realize that the “perfect” untroubled life we’d like for them is just a fantasy. In daily living, tears and fights and doing things we don’t want to do are all part of our human ways of developing into adults.
Oh relax.” I waved my hand dismissively. “If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal for stabbing, and he’s been a perfect gentleman.
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
In sickness, with its attendant pain, patience is required. If the only perfect man who ever lived-even Jesus of Nazareth-was called upon to endure great suffering, how can we, who are less than perfect, expect to be free of such challenges?
I’ve learned that nobody’s perfect, and I don’t expect myself to be perfect anymore.
If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why does it seem that everyone looking for God’s will is in such bondage and confusion?
Nobody’s life is perfect and in the grand scheme of things, life is short. I think it’s so important to live life to its fullest and choose to smile.
When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Your past may not be perfect, but it was perfect for your purpose.
I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you’re ridiculed.
My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing
No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.
Tonight, tonight we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president. Standing here, standing here as my mother’s daughter, and my daughter’s mother, I’m so happy this day has come.
I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill – not because we’re perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.
When you’re happy for no reason, you’re unconditionally happy. It’s not that your life always looks perfect – it’s just that however it looks, you’ll still be happy.
New York is like that perfect lover that just won’t commit but he’s so good that you hang around anyway, NYC is dreamy!
He didn’t mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.
I don’t have to try to be perfect at everything.
I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.
I’ve used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?
If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we’ll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.
God’s ways and His will come in His own perfect time.
It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible.
It’s a question of will and discipline.
It’s a question of will and discipline.
Can’t you home school me?” Nate pleaded. “You would never do any work.” (Nate’s mom) “Sounds perfect!
You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.
You’re never gonna find the perfect politician.
By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.
Chicken masala is now Britain’s true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.
Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We’ll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We’ll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We’ll be able to modify life in the future.
In rowing, you’re always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can’t say, ‘Oh, I don’t feel well, so I’m going to put out a crappy plate.’
You have to keep on learning all the time unless and until you become perfect in all the strokes.
I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.
We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
Sometimes it takes a while to find that perfect balance between knowing who you are, what your sound is, and building the right team to make that happen. Once it all really comes together and it makes sense, both for the audience and your fans, there’s no stopping you.
That Islam you see on TV does not represent me, I’m too busy waging jihad against myself, My own nafs are my enemy. I’m sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam, Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand.
There is nothing perfect…only life.
My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon.
Humour and high seriousness… Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.
Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.
People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances.
Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever – even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.
We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.
Everybody’s got regrets. Everybody’s made mistakes. Nobody’s perfect.
There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute.
I’m a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it’s still not perfect, you know?
If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.
In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.
My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art – a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Marshall’s crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.
The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.
I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I’m constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes – all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.
The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just feel it. And it’s all about the atmosphere, the people around you, you know, everything. You got to be clear headed in that and have a perfect atmosphere.
I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.
At the end of the day nobody’s perfect and everybody’s weird whether they embrace it or not
I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.
Commentators who today talk of ‘The Dark Ages’ when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas’ intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.
Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.
Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.
If we say that anyone who ‘moralizes’ must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.
I don’t think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn’t cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.
I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.
Look may be that everything is right, it is always best to have an inspection before marching. To forget a screw, if you have a loose one, and only discover your loss when you are miles from home and the view before you is “perfect”, is to promote, possibly suicide, certainly profanity.
It’s always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There’s never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.
We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
I’m not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be – I don’t want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.
My body shape was made to get into the perfect aerodynamic position.
There’s never going to be a decathlon that you’re going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You’re always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It’s like you go for the perfect 10.
You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I’m probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things
Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
“Do you like him much?” “I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.” “Is he?” “All boys are.” “More than girls?” “Very likely.”
There are no ‘ifs’ in God’s Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don’t let me go mad by poking about outside it.
The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.
‘Perfect Sense’ is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie – where seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination.
Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it’s like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you’ll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Nobody’s perfect, and to try to pretend you’re perfect is an exhausting fool’s errand.
I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it’s the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you – because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.
You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.
A real girl isn’t perfect and a perfect girl isn’t real.
I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made – and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism – is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You’re not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you’ll never eliminate all poverty.
We want to bring awareness for all those cats still searching for their forever home and not only help them find their perfect match but also make the transition home a success.
The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That’s a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.
As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you have so much less time to develop as an artist and perfect your craft. So many things today are “instant” and, that’s not always a good thing.
Candy Crowley’s hair is PERFECT!!
A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.
I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
The master swordsman isn’t interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.
What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time.
Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.
There’s this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.
Since I’m not focusing on my speed as much now as I was heading into the combine, I’m really focusing on my position work, trying to perfect how I play the safety position. I’ve been doing a lot of backpedaling and drills that focus on turning my hips, which help me out on the football field.
I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
In your flaws are hidden your strength. Your perfect imperfection will lead you to change.
Ex-cons always say, “You never know what makes the wheels go round until you’ve done time in the joint.” This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.
The European family may well be anything but perfect.
I’m looking for the perfect paintball movie.
I mean, you know, we don’t live in a perfect world.
Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.
Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. “If you don’t know what you want,” the doorman said, “you end up with a lot you don’t.” May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
I’m not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that’s perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that’s a little bit too long for me.
I am far from a perfect pro-lifer.
We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.
A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
What the hell did I do in the 80’s? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.
You know how in most teenage movies the girl meets the boy, they kiss, they have some type of fallout, then there’s an awkward sex scene, and then they’re together forever? And they say the perfect things the whole way? That doesn’t happen in real life.
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there’s something radiant, perfect and eternal.
I’m a human just like any of the people that you adore, whether they’re in TV shows or movies or they’re writers or YouTubers. Their lives are not perfect.
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That’s the way you sell houses… that’s also the way you win over constituency.
My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone’s child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
I may be heaven-sent, but I’m not perfect.
Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.
A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don’t do that well, so why would we trust them with the power over life and death? Do we really believe the system is that perfect that it won’t make any mistakes? You can’t reverse these mistakes.
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don’t even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.
So often we wait for the climate and conditions in life to be perfect before we feel safe enough to step forward, trust, and be our authentic selves. What we don’t realize is that in order to create the ideal climate we are waiting for, we must be authentic first.
A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
That’s our job as artists is to be honest about what we’re feeling. And what we’re feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it’s going to be controversial. Sometimes it’s going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it’s going to motivate people. Sometimes it’s going to inspire.
For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
There’s no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
We’re all born feeling perfect until somebody tells us we’re not. So there’s nothing I can teach my daughter. She already has all of it. The only thing I can do is protect what she already feels.
I have an ethics background. It doesn’t mean you’re perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that’s based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, ‘Are you Right or Left?’
What I might have considered good, good doesn’t mean every day is going to be perfect, you’re not going to have bad breath, your hair is going to be in the perfect place.
We don’t have to be perfect to experience the blessings and gifts of our Heavenly Father.
Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub…. Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of–well, instead of the sort we are at present.
Good enough is good enough. We’re not supposed to be perfect. We’re supposed to be complete.
Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that’s all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.
I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
The Steinway piano – with its beauty and power – is the perfect medium for expressing the performer’s art, drama and poetry.
One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.
Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody’s perfect.
I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can’t quite explain it. The poem can only explain itselfВ to a certain limit and at that point you enter into a little bit of mystery. That for me is the perfect poem: to begin inВ clarity and to end in mystery.
The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you’re saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we’d live in a perfect world.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.
Real life isn’t always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
A punk group is perfect because literally the lead singer doesn’t play anything – he just sings and screams and jumps around; his body is his instrument.
Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.
Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.
Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover’s work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it’s perfect. It’s this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It’s not, I’m pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
I don’t think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect – we all know that.
I’m very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I’m not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar on hair gel so you can get the perfect cowlick?
If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.
Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be.
Let me… remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.
The Lord may want to colonise other Worlds with His new perfect children! What’s the whole Universe for and all this huge amount of space if He’s only interested in colonising one little Planet? What an incubation! What an incubator for other civilizations!-Right here on the New Earth and the Heavenly City!
God is dead but my hair is perfect.
I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don’t want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.
In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That’s what works for me. I don’t concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don’t conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.
Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don’t have to paddle around and wait.
I don’t want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.
Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.
Perfect love drives out fear
You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.
War’s Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings
Having the perfect body doesn’t fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it’s all about being comfortable in your own skin.
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear
My girlfriend bought a cook book the other day called ‘Cheap and easy vegetarian cooking’. Which is perfect for her, because not only is she vegetarian.
I’m not perfect, but I think that I’ve done good to stay focused on what I’m called to do.
Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I dont know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what shes wearing.
I’ve just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don’t take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.
Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
Great product trumps all. You can have the biggest marketing budget, the biggest show, a perfect merchandising plan, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t mean anything if the design and quality of the product you are offering is not compelling.
Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.
All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It’s like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one’s self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.
‘Perfect justice rules the world’ for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its’ former lives.
Olive Kitteridge’ is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don’t even notice it; the story is so vivid it’s less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.
I’ve always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
I think God is perfect, all-powerful and has an unstoppable plan for everyone, including those who love him and those who don’t.
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life
The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn’t happened since.
I’m a big fan of pops of color, but I thought I would take that to the next level and do a color-blocked Rolex. This watch is the perfect accessory whether you’re wearing a tee and jeans or a well-tailored suit.
The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
Take pains. Be perfect.
Why don’t we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It’s a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible.
Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.
I’m an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.
The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.
No one’s perfect,” I whisper. “It doesn’t work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it.” I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
(The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it’s providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there’s no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.
We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.
The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they’re gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA.
My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.
I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.
The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source.
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.
The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
I wasn’t a perfect thing at 17. I didn’t have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn’t want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.
God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants us to become perfect,2 and if we stay on the path of discipleship, one day we will. It’s OK that you’re not quite there yet. Keep working on it, but stop punishing yourself.
I’ve always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it’s so much better to get the feeling of, “Wow, she’s so perfect,” from a doll than to have to bear that from a woman in a magazine.
If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta’ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.
I was beginning to understand.My grandmother’s love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.
Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
We’re living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.
I’d been playing Ted in the show for about a year as well as playing in the group in my spare time. Then, at the ‘Scrubs’ Christmas party, I offered to bring along the band to sing a song. The producers thought we were terrible – but perfect for the show.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.
Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.
Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it’s football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad – perfect for long airplane journeys.
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.
He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable.
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
I may not be perfect, but i’m always me
On this waterlogged landscape….are scattered palaces and hovels….It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.
I have no plans to retire. It’s the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
“I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.” “It never is, sir.” “Lane, you’re a perfect pessimist.” “I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.”
Ring the bells that still can ring.
People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video… and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that’s not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.
…start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made…Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It’s the highest art.
You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws.
As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.
The universe is always ecstasy and it’s always perfect, but we don’t perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.
Software never was perfect and won’t get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.
Beauty isn’t about looking perfect. It’s about celebrating your individuality.
Just like men, perfume is never perfect right away; you have to let it seduce you.
There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I’ve realized that it’s time for me to show my audience that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it.
MP3’s are perfect.
Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.
Everyone’s looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that’s something people find hard to accept. Don’t confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.
I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. There I shall find my Mother in all the splendor of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of Jesus himself in perfect safety.
Each job I had wasn’t necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.
There is perfect love in heaven!
What’s perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we’re basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It’s something that kind of folds in on itself.
Baseball is a game of life. It’s not perfect, but it feels like it is.
Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.
[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I’m an imperfectionist. I don’t really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I’m careless. I shoot carelessly.
Nature rarely does anything mathematically perfect, and naturalism results from imperfections and deviations.
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle
Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.
In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.
We are called to reflect the Lord’s beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.
The Carmen Electra cards give me another way to connect with my fans while providing them the ability to enjoy the convenience of shopping or paying bills with ease — online and offline, … Payment Data Systems is the perfect partner for me because of the capabilities the company already has in place.
Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you’re a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.
Chihuahuas are the perfect pet if you don’t have a person in your life who screams and shits their pants every time there’s a noise.
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.
Just the title of ‘American Idol’ is something that people can look up to. I’m not Saint Scott, I’m not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.
Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He’d forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
You should have a certain way of dressing based on how you feel. It’s appropriate for you. I think Robert Rabensteiner’s a perfect example of that – he just always looks so chic.
Well I’m sure now that the press is going to tell you (Mitt Romney) isn’t perfect. Now my friends for the past four years, we’ve tried the one that the press thought was perfect and that hasn’t worked out all that well for us.
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
I don’t think ‘Cocktail’ was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
To be appointed as captain of the team of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, which includes some of the finest and most attractive cricketers of this generation, is the perfect icing on the cake.
Wanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We’re not specialists in anything, except, hopefully, writing.
[Simone Weil’s] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.
It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday
The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.
Headhunters is a popcorn flick – you can laugh and shout and do whatever you want having great fun. But at the bottom of it all there’s this theme of being honest to the people you love. I want to be that. And if Headhunters is one of the movies that help me realise that, then that’s perfect.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, ‘Edgar says — ‘ And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
I have learned that you’re not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it’s just the fool that’s looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.
I’m not perfect, but I believe my faith in Jesus Christ will really take me far in the world!
To sum up: it’s time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.
I like food because you can change it. I mean, there is no such thing as a perfect lamb chop; you can make all types of lamb chops. And that’s true of everything. And people eat it and it changes and disappears.
Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
I’d never read a piece of television where it’s an hour script and it’s perfect.
No matter how perfect is physical beauty of a girl, if she could trample and not to appreciate the love, she doesn’t worth of being loved.
Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.
In horror films, they sometimes don’t show the monster because our imaginations and our own pain is so much greater. Social media is like that. I think it’s so great. It doesn’t have to show a monster – when you see someone leaving a mean comment, or living a so-called perfect life, you just put all of your pain into that.
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
You can’t be perfect. You can’t be the perfect father. You can’t be the perfect singer.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
A God must have a God for company.
And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend.
Thou honour’st his obedience, he thy law.
Into thy secret life-will he doth see;
Thou fold’st him round in live love perfectly-
One two, without beginning, without end;
In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.
And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend.
Thou honour’st his obedience, he thy law.
Into thy secret life-will he doth see;
Thou fold’st him round in live love perfectly-
One two, without beginning, without end;
In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.
I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans
It takes me a lot of time, and it’s almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they’re waiting for a new song. And I – it’s just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.
