My fatherhood made me understand my parents and to honor them more for the love they gave. My sonhood was revealed to… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case,… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed… — Miyamoto Musashi 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
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In America, even your menus have the gift of language… The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
