Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milan Kundera

There is no perfection only life

Milan Kundera

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Joseph Addison

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

Joseph Addison

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Joseph Addison

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

Jose Saramago

Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

Jonny Wilkinson

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Jonathan Tropper

Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Joanna Trollope

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

John C. Reilly

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

Mahatma Gandhi

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Mahatma Gandhi

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

James Stephens

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

James Mangold

There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

James Macdonald

Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

Novalis

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Ellen G. White

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

Ellen G. White

Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation.

Ellen DeGeneres

No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.

Ellen DeGeneres

My life is perfect even when it's not.

Epictetus

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Epictetus

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

Emily Carr

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

Emily Blunt

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

Emily Giffin

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

Emily Giffin

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

Hermann Hesse

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Hermann Hesse

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection.