Perfect Quotes - Page 178

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.

The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

What does the gay movement mean when it says tolerance?...It means absolutely unconditionally accepting it as perfectly normal, healthy, natural and something that should be integrated into every part of society.

I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.

Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don’t. They never can. There is no perfect. There’s just different. But different can be wonderful.

I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.

The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.

Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.

We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

It's just that that feels discriminatory to me, "the ideal woman." The concept of ideal is fleeting. It's like "perfect." There's no such thing.

When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.

I admit that I sometimes climbed on other fellows' backs. But I used to watch the flight of the ball perhaps more than the other fellow did. Perfect timing, a deep breath and a natural spring then helped me to get above them.

When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion which fulfills those conditions.