Perfect Quotes - Page 159

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!

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior and inferior to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.

The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

Night, a more perfect day.

He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.

Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.

Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.