Perfect Quotes - Page 24

• The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Rose, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mother, Attitude, Reality

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• And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

  David O. McKay

  Honesty, Teaching, Heart

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• On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Men, Hair

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.436, Faber & Faber

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• Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

  Christopher Paolini

  Faces, Painting

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• i made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed.

  Shel Silverstein

  Sleep, Night, Pet

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• You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Blood, House, Triumph

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• I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the perfect pet bowls. The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Cat, Hunger Strike

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Divine, Should, Humans

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.116, Penguin

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• There is nothing perfect...only life.

  Sue Monk Kidd

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• Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Rain, Fall, Lightning

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• They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stupid, Safety, Laughing

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.77, Xist Publishing

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• Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Weight Loss, Loser

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• Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble

  Sarah Dessen

  Regret, Littles, Trouble

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.114, Penguin

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• Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already perfect.

  Jane Lindskold

  Looks, Done, Blind

  Jane Lindskold (2002). “Through Wolf's Eyes”, p.132, Macmillan

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• By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Love You, Reality

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.126, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Sputnik, World, Pointless Things

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

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• The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, California, Tree

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.17, Penguin

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• A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Humor

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1 (1894)

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• A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

  Markus Zusak

  Friendship, Inspiring, Snow

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.55, RH Childrens Books

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• Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

  Helen Rowland

  Heart, Men, Broken

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Numbers, Balance, Three

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• Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.285, Penguin

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• Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

  Jim Butcher

  Children, Kids, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin Group

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• The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

  Brent Weeks

  No Friends, Target, Killers

  Brent Weeks (2011). “The Way of Shadows (download)”, Hachette Digital

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