Perfected Quotes
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama
I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.
Johnny Weissmuller
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux
I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.
Josh Duhamel
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porter
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Mason Cooley
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
Roberta Flack
You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.
Alan Dershowitz
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Henri Bergson
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
Richard MacDonald
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Annette Bening
We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.
Dick Van Patten
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
James Buchan
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux