Perfectly Quotes

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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen. — Ann Patchett
I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And… — P.G. Wodehouse
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject… — Martin Luther
Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the… — Jane Austen
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. — Virginia Woolf
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the… — Wilkie Collins
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over… — Anne Lamott
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a… — Kurt Vonnegut
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a… — Jostein Gaarder
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when… — Unknown Author
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever experienced love and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most… — Upton Sinclair
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and… — Oscar Wilde
Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons. — Jennifer Fallon
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title… — Rob Sheffield
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the… — A. J. Jacobs
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother… — Lisa See
Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me… — Billy Collins
All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one… — Douglas Adams
All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life;… — Mark Helprin
My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the… — Jane Austen
There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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