A Perfect World Quotes - Page 5

• God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

  Immanuel Kant

  Fashion, Art, Nature

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

  Moby

  Hair, Feet, Perfect

  "Moby takes sober look at his life as a musician". Interview With Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 13, 2013.

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• You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

  Joel Osteen

  Perfect, House, Waiting

  "Joel Osteen: The Power of Positivity (part 2)". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Perfect, World

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• Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances you probably would want to. In other instances you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

  Andrew Ross Sorkin

  Thinking, Perfect, Political

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

  Haruki Murakami

  Perfect, Sputnik, World

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.theguardian.com. 1999.

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• Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Perfect, Darkness, Would Be

  David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.50, Canongate Books

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• In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, White, Differences

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

  Darren Shan

  Ifs And, Perfect, What If

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• And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

  Catherine Fisher

  Perfect, World, Scared

  Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.103, Penguin

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• Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.

  Sarah Dessen

  Boys, Perfect, Different

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.139, Penguin

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• Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

  Michael Moorcock

  Peace, Imperfect World, Opposites

  Michael Moorcock (2009). “Duke Elric”, p.127, Del Rey

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• I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

  Shelby Foote

  Ideas, Perfect, Bored

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• In a perfect world, Joshua‟s vertically gifted murderer would‟ve had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly would‟ve announced his full name, occupation, religious preference, preferably with his god‟s country and time period of origin, his goals, dreams, and aspirations, and the location of his lair. But nobody had ever accused post-Shift Atlanta of being perfect.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dream, Country, Religious

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• In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Perfect, World

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• Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn’t perfect and neither are we.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Regret, Perfect

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.905, Macmillan

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• With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in every heart that knows we can live in a perfect world in shades of Michelangelo I hear songs of children echo in the sky I hear songs of children a tomorrow so bright!

  Belinda Carlisle

  Spiritual, Song, Children

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• Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful - that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect. This is the most perfect world, this moment lacks nothing - the experience of this is what enlightenment is.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Reality, Perfect

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• In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Play, Perfect, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

  Denise Crosby

  Dark, Perfect, Sides

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• I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Giving, Perfect

  "Anderson Cooper's 'I'm Gay' Announcement Draws Mixed Reactions on Twitter" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 02, 2012.

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• Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

  John Larroquette

  Thinking, Boys, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Strive for excellence, not perfection.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life, Perfection, Excellence

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.

  Derek Sivers

  Perfect, Design, World

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.8, Penguin

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• Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Eye, Perfect, Suffering

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.80, Tharpa Publications UK

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