229 quotes found
“... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.”
“There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.”
“I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being reve...”
“Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and ...”
“Jesus take the wheelTake it from my handsCause I can't do this on my ownI'm letting goSo give me one more chanceSave me from this road I'm onJesus take the wheel”
“When a lady isn't perfect, she's a lot more perfect, I believe. - Mack”
“Every book has an error”
“Greed is a strange, strange sin.All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, acquire attention. The running mantra is I want, I want, I want but tha...”
“Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot's Soul.""Oh?""Yes. Because it is clear and pure and lucid.""And treacherous and dangerous?""You know, Niko, I begin to suspect that you ar...”
“I'm perfect in being imperfect...”
“The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself.”
“Perfection is something everyone strives for, but its elusive and may be an illusion.”
“Before we aspire after theoretical perfection in the amelioration of our political state, it is necessary that we possess those advantages which we have been cheated of, and which the experience of...”
“There is no perfect first experience of anything. There is only our ability to find a shard of perfection in the wildly imperfect situations we inevitably find ourselves in [Cram, Cusi, "One Life t...”
“The universe has no mind and thats why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!”
“The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, "No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.”
“Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless.”
“She could strive for perfection only in certain, few things; beyond that, it was important only to be tidy.”
“Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second?”
“I don't buy junk. When I buy something, it's got to be perfection or I don't want it. You won't find me coming home with five cheap suits, one for each day of the week. I'd rather have one perfect ...”
