Perfectly Quotes
1695 Perfectly quotes by 1227 unique authors
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Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust. We don’t lust after very many things in…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?
— Joseph Pilates
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Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are…
— Vincent Canby
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A human encounter with holiness is devastating. It refuses to allow us to be impressed with the things of the world we’ve been chasing. It…
— Todd Agnew
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The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer…
— Geoffrey Dutton
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Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written…
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once…
— W D Richter
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I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true…
— Carlo Carra
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I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.
— David Johansen
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The market is perfectly well supplied at the moment but spare capacity is very limited.
— Claude Mandil
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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how…
— Marcel Proust
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Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
— Horace Bushnell
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Life has been messy for me, as it has for most everyone. I have come to the realization that challenging experiences break us all at…
— Ping Fu
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I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The…
— Oswald J. Smith
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The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
— Charles A. Reich
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I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion…
— David Bentley Hart
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So I tell you, my son, that the secret of true happiness is for him who asks nothing in return. The perfectly unselfish man is…
— Paul Twitchell
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Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly…
— Shalom Auslander
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Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.
— John T. Flynn
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Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true.…
— Karen Kain
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The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the…
— Brian D. McLaren
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The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the…
— William Ames
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It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we…
— Sheena Iyengar
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I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going…
— Barry Hughart
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While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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