Famous Quotes & Sayings

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Hugh Mackay

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

Horatio Sanz

What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.

I'd get too tearful if I had to let him go, ... We really didn't need three, but after having him here for 10, 11 days, he is just the perfect dog.

Patty Schnyder

I am very happy. I think I played perfect tennis tonight.

Hunter S. Thompson

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Hubert H. Humphrey

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

Howard Bragman

Everything is perfect until it's not.

Honore de Balzac

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Jacques Barzun

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Iyanla Vanzant

The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!

Iyanla Vanzant

Beloveds, you are fine, just the way you are! Perfect in your imperfection! You are divine! Growing brighter and more brilliant each day, you can accept the truth of who you are.

Pat Benatar

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

Pat Conroy

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.

Julia Jones

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

Leonard Slatkin

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

Leonardo da Vinci

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Oscar Wilde

To be premature is to be perfect

Oscar Wilde

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Patrick Rothfuss

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

Patrice Motsepe

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Patricia Arquette

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

Oswald Chambers

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Laurence Olivier

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Laurence Olivier

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Leigh Hunt

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Leigh Hunt

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

Lauren Weisberger

He certainly seems like the perfect guy but none of that matters if he's not the perfect guy for you.

Lauren Oliver

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

Ne-Yo

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

Mstislav Rostropovich

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.