Perfect Quotes - page 3

Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. (J. B. Priestley)
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.
Brandon Boyd
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
Lewis Mumford
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut
... it is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.
Karl Weierstrass
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain
The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.
Carl von Clausewitz
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman. (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honoré de Balzac
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Augustine of Hippo
I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.
Cindy Crawford
You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right.
Jack Canfield
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Giorgio Vasari
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
Emmet Fox
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Robert Mapplethorpe
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
Winona Ryder
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Karl Barth
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. (Queen Latifah)
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.
Paulo Coelho
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot