Perfect Quotes - Page 17

• Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

  Brigham Young

  People, Religion, Tears

  Attributed to Brigham Young in "The Life Story of Brigham Young" by Leah D. Widtsoe, Susa Young Gates, 1930.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Mistake, Moving, Quitting

  20 Copy quote

• I'm not a perfect mom, but I'm perfect for my kids.

  Niecy Nash

  Mom, Kids

  4 Copy quote

• I didn't marry a man that wanted to be in the business. But that's why we're a perfect fit.

  Niecy Nash

  Men, Fit, Wanted

  4 Copy quote

• I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Art, Giving Up, Clever

  4 Copy quote

• Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

  William Goldman

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.46, A&C Black

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Betrayal, Heads Or Tails, Coins

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.311, Faber & Faber

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Inspiring, Sorrow

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.291, Faber & Faber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

  Richard Bach

  Son, Light, Numbers

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Grateful, Light, Self

  7 Copy quote

• I love the me I am with him. I’m the girl who has Dave. I’m Lauren, Dave’s girlfriend. I’m someone better than Lauren Smith, who no one noticed till Dave came along. The thing is, that girl isn’t me and I know it. But when I’m with him, I feel like I could be her. That if something in me was just–I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Girl, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

  Michael Cunningham

  Perfection, Promise, Stills

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.98, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Summer, Taken

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 10, 2011

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

  Dorothy Parker

  Rose, Luck, Limousines

  "One Perfect Rose" l. 9 (1926)

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look within, get depressed; Look around, get distressed; Look to Jesus, find perfect rest.

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Looks

  315 Copy quote

• There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Cooking, Fruit

  88 Copy quote

• Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Beautiful, Laughter, Food

  25 Copy quote

• One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

  Nick Hornby

  Gone, Opinion

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.4, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Would Be, Desert

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.119, Rowman & Littlefield

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

  Oscar Wilde

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, Want

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 6

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Sadness, Laughing, Joy

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

  Julia Glass

  People, Giving, Pills

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Years, Issues

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.44, Random House

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Reality, Imperfection, Perfection And Imperfection

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There", p. 127, 2002.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Anniversary, Boyfriend

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 02, 2015

  12 Copy quote

  Show source