Quotes 181 till 200 of 249.
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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
Cosmos (1980) -
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
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The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher.
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The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.
Poetry -
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
Telegraph Hay Festival 2012
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