Imperfect Quotes
626 Imperfect quotes by 472 unique authors
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I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations…
— Patrick O'Brian
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
— Pema Chodron
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we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we…
— Joan Didion
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I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a…
— Thornton Wilder
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Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.
— Sarah Dessen
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Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.
— Lisa Kleypas
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...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and…
— Janet Frame
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You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly, your French accent…
— Lisa Kleypas
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as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!
— Brenda Jackson
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So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
— Anne Lamott
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I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
— Adam Young
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.
— Haruki Murakami
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He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she…
— Lisa Kleypas
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To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She…
— Meg Wolitzer
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To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
— Louise Erdrich
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My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to…
— John Piper
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words…
— Elliot Perlman
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It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things…
— Hoda Kotb
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The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
— Charles Spurgeon
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