Perfect Quotes - Page 26

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared vile. I had no more value for the favor of men than for pebbles.

With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair!

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

To make a perfect horseman, three things are requisite. First, to know how and when to help your horse. Secondly, how and when to correct him. And thirdly, how and when to praise him and to make much of him.

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.

For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day.

Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

Matchy-matchy is not for me. I don't want things to be too perfect. It's like pairing a matte top with a shiny skirt, so they play off each other. I want there to be relationships with texture and color, and sometimes it's more about the contrast that chimes.

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

If you think marriage is going to be perfect, you're probably still at your reception.

Punish the body to perfect the soul.

Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

No life is perfect, we all have our problems and issues and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are.

I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.