P Quotes
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“Perfect people make for boring novels.”
“Perfect people with imperfect life.”
“Perfect people with imperfect life. Imperfect people with perfect life.”
“Perfect practice makes perfect.”
“Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.”
Source: OM Chanting and Meditation
“Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.”
“Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.”
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
“Perfect reason avoids all extremes.”
“Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.”
“Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.”
Source: Daemon
“Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.”
“Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.”
“Perfect Roses have Thorns too Ya'know”
“Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.”
“Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.”
Source: The Game of Life and How to Play It
“Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.”
“Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.”
Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda
“Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.”
“Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.”
“Perfect' - the most misattributed word in English language
A 'perfect' thing can never be improved - at least by what the meaning implies. Why should anyone want to be perfect?
Unfortunately, this happens to be my greatest flaw. Turning a relative idea into an absolute one. Seeking perfection in others - or should I say 'subconsciously seeking perfection in myself' and projecting a benchmark based in fantasy on others.
Makes one come across as judgmental, intolerant, arrogant or impatient - in short, a platinum-class jerk. But you, my friend, are too kind to tell me. Or you'd rather bear for the moment and cuss me roundly when I'm gone. That's unfair to us both.
If I have ever done this to you, I am sincerely sorry.
Accept my profound apologies”
“Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.”
“Perfect things stop breathing. They become monuments to the fear that made them.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“Perfect time to worry about important things like how stupid was Cinderella to leave a shoe behind. Who the fuck does that?”
“Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.”
“Perfect typography is more a science than an art.”
Source: The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design
“Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity; our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.”
“Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.”
“Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.”
“Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what
one would do before all the world.”
Source: Maxims
“PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something as a substitute because you feel unfulfilled. When you are absolutely fulfilled, why should you create, how can you create? Then you yourself have become the glory of creation, then the inner being itself is so perfect, nothing is needed.
PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING. If the world is virtuous, all utilitarian goals will be lost. If the world is really virtuous there will be play and no production. Then the whole thing will just become a game. You enjoy it, but you don’t need it. A perfect sage is absolutely useless.”
Source: The Empty Boat: Talks on the Sayings of Chuang Tzu
“Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.”
“Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.”
“Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.”
“Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.”
Source: Beyond This Point Are Monsters
“Perfect your own powers.”
“Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.”
Source: The Priest's Graveyard
“Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.”
Source: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
“Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.”
“Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
“Perfecting is a journey...There is no destination called perfection.”
“Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.”
“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.”
“Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.”
“Perfecting your thoughts and attitude is the first step in perfecting your life.”
“Perfection: a collection of a variety of pieces that, when viewed and felt individually, are difficult and confusing; but when brought together as one, create a perfect picture. Symphony, harmony, serenity.”
“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
Source: The periodic table