Perfect Quotes - Page 83

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.

Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.

If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

I expect perfection from myself.

I believe in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life.

Embrace nature's brutal perfection.

A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty.

I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.

For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.