P Quotes
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“Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.”
“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”
“Perfect crime,' he said softly.
'Yes?'
'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her sacrificing her own life. She will come into hospital as trustingly as a lamb to the slaughter. She will welcome the implantation of a baby that will kill her. She'll lie there while her brain is destroyed for nine whole months, and no police will arrest you, no court will judge you, you'll get away scot free. At the end of nine months she'll be taken off life support and she'll be completely dead. And no one will be blamed.”
Source: The Testament of Jessie Lamb
“Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath”
“Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!”
“Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.”
Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.”
“Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.”
“Perfect doesn't exist in the way people dream.”
“Perfect don’t mean that it’s working.”
“Perfect faith casts out all fears.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Perfect faith is the power to pray.”
“Perfect first date would be coffee at Aroma talking for hours. That's when I would know to ask for a second date.”
“Perfect food is born of perfect order.”
“Perfect form is the most important thing to have a perfect body, it's impossible to make a painting with a big brush”
“Perfect freedom is an essential condition for love.”
Source: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.”
“Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.”
“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.”
“Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.”
“Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.”
“Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.”
“Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.”
“Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.”
Source: Emma: A Novel
“Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.”
“Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation.”
Source: Healthful Living
“Perfect health, long life and eternal youth are not the random genetic blessings of a chaotic or capricious universe, but natural birthrights that can be accessed through the mindful acceptance of simple truths, activated by the committed practice of proven activities, and sustained by advancement along a single known path. This is that path. --The Ageless Adept”
“Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind.”
“Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.”
“Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.”
“Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.”
“Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.”
Source: Firefall
“Perfect? How do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so why push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is where you want to be?”
“Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.”
Source: Weight of Glory
“Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.”
Source: Works
“Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.”
“Perfect is a Preference, Not! a possibility.”
“Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.”
“Perfect is boring, human is beautiful”
“Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.”
“Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring."
I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?"
"No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.”
Source: Lola and the Boy Next Door
“Perfect is something that doesn't require further development or advancement”
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
“Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.”
“Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.”
“Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.”