Perfect Quotes - Page 130

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

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.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

You are in the perfect position to get there from here.

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

I haven't had a perfect career. I've put some albums out that, looking back, I'm not super proud of, but there's also a lot of stuff that I am very proud of.

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.