Perfect Quotes

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

Life is not perfect.

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well.

I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.