Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dante Alighieri

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Dan Simmons

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

Billy Graham

If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

Billy Graham

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

Billy Graham

If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by way of Calvary to get it.

Meryl Streep

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

Dogen

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

Chuck Palahniuk

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

We need to toughen up a little bit. When we play a team that is physically better than we are, we have to play perfect football.

Ludwig von Mises

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Angela Johnson

We just want to make sure that everything is perfect before we go back up in the air.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.

William Shakespeare

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

William Shakespeare

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

On the Lord's Path, sinners are purified. Perfect is their glory; perfect is their humanity.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Simon Cowell

You have the perfect voice for that kind of song. There's nothing more I can say.

We're not swinging the bat. I think at times we are too selective and waiting on the perfect pitch.

I said in Spring Training that was the perfect spot for him.

Lanny Poffo

Let me stop you right there. Ten arrests, no convictions, I've got a perfect record.

Alice Munro

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

Anne Lamott

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Andy Pettitte

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

America Ferrera

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

Amanda Palmer

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

Annie Lennox

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Annie Dillard

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.

D. H. Lawrence

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.