Quotes with perfect

  • Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
  • Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
  • My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
  • The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
  • Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
  • Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
  • A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
  • Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
  • All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
  • No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
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  • Winston Churchill Democracy isn't perfect, I just don't know a better system.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • James Stephens ''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Andrew Murray A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
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  • Jean Baudrillard If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Joseph Addison It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Kofi Annan Peace is never a perfect achievement.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Barbara Sher ''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Ben Platt 'Pitch Perfect 2' is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro - she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She's the most mature girl ever.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur 'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Adrian Smith A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • George S. Patton A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • George S. Patton A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Bruno Maag A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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