Perfect Quotes - page 5

Man is never perfect, nor contented. (Jules Verne)
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Because were human beings, were not always going to be perfect. View quote
Benny Hinn
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! View quote
John Muir
If God only used perfect people, nohting would get done. God will use anybody if you're available. View quote
Rick Warren
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought. View quote
Helen Keller
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. View quote
John Steinbeck
You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. (Ivan Pavlov)
Home-that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. View quote
John Henry Newman
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. View quote
William Davenant
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. View quote
Confucius
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. View quote
Adelaide Anne Procter
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. View quote
Michael J. Sandel
The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. View quote
Eliza Farnham
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism. View quote
Warren Ellis
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. View quote
Albrecht Dürer
Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality. (Shunryu Suzuki)
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. View quote
Brian Tracy
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. View quote
Henry Kissinger
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. View quote
Mark Twain