The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
This is our practice of being alive. Were always in the process of becoming, and were different in each moment. If the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
“Religion requires perfection, but the kingdom values excellence. If we strive for perfection and don’t allow ourselves room to be wrong, we… — Bob Hazlett Copy Share Image
We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're looking at the reflection of perfection. You're looking at the man who gets all your attention. You're looking at the man… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
“Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing," its CEO said. At another point, when VLSI Technology was having trouble delivering… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
Part of being an athlete is constantly striving for more. We're looking for perfection in a world where that doesn't exist. No… — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Her hands pressed warm against the glass as her gaze swept the scene below: cream and pink roses, petals shining as if… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body… — George Combe Copy Share Image
Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“I likened her to the slender PSYCHÉ and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: The dusty… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Here is an old Oriental proverb: *A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.* It is difficult to anticipate just… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Scientists define perfectionism as the will to achieve high standards combined with excessive self-criticism. Perfectionists expect, well, perfection. Anything less won’t do.… — Andrea Petersen Copy Share Image
He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I remember being in college and taking a class on classical music and getting a big laugh when I said very sincerely… — Ira Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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