Perfect Quotes - Page 10

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'!

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has His own timetable. It is we who must learn to adjust to it, not vice versa. When God's time comes nothing will stand in His way. We can therefore wait for Him with this happy confidence: "As for God, His way is perfect" (2 Samuel 22:31).

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.

One UK paper described me as a "miserablist", a word I'd never heard before or since. I looked it up and it means someone who can only be happy when they are miserable. Perfect.

Goat face is a horrible insult. My face is practically perfect in every way. In fact, from now on I demand to be called Beautiful Bryan.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.