Perfect Quotes - Page 154

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

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.

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.

The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

‎Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?

No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron, cicada, spider, catalpa tree, mockingbird, snail, cormorant, and others. These pitch-perfect poems are written with a delicate, meticulous attention to craft and music. Like the joy she takes in her subjects, this collection is a joy to read.

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.