I'm just a girl whose hair is never right who more then once has fallen on her face who can't stop laughing… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain… — Robert South Copy Share Image
We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we… — James Howe Copy Share Image
“I like her," Brad said, chuckling. "For a Red Sox tee shirt wearing woman I guess she's okay," Jason grumbled. "Does no… — R.L. Mathewson Copy Share Image
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging,… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding;… — Ed Bliss Copy Share Image
It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
My desire is to strive toward perfection; to be as much in harmony with God's will as possible; to live up to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- “AS IS.” It means, take me as I am. I may… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient… — Tsultrim Allione Copy Share Image
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there.… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as the perfect relationship. You can however, create a relationship which is perfect. Perfection comes from your… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or… — Peter Dickens Copy Share Image
Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The dragon-fly is dancing,— Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
We aren't supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we'd have no need for Jesus. And it's through our… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
When you're a part of any protected class, whether it is being a woman, a person of color, a part of the… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In the past, my brain could only compute perfection or failure—nothing in between. So words like competent, acceptable, satisfactory, and good enough… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be… — Jinasena Copy Share Image
There he is, a woman's living, breathing fantasy, doing his slow, cocky turn, spiky black hair, darkly tanned chest, dimpled smile-killer smile-all… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
