Perfect Quotes - Page 136

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.

Be content with nothing less than perfection.

There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.

Faith When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.

Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God - and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.

Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

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.

Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.

Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.